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The Merchant Venturer
The Merchant Venturer was successful, and ran for eleven years, until 1961. The first was a British Railways Type 7 in black, with the text The Merchant Venturer across three lines. wikipedia.org
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merchant-venturer
ˈmerchant-ˈventurer Obs. exc. Hist. = merchant-adventurer. Also fig.1550 Lever Serm. (Arb.) 131 The marchaunt venturer, which..caryeth furth suche thynges, as maye well be spared, and bryngeth home suche wares as muste needes be occupyed in thys realm. 1556 Machyn Diary (Camd.) 116 Gressem..marchand... Oxford English Dictionary
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merchant-adventurer
ˈmerchant-adˈventurer Obs. exc. Hist. (See also merchant-venturer.) A merchant engaged in the organization and dispatch of trading expeditions over sea, and the establishment of factories and trading stations in foreign countries. Hence, a member of an association of such merchants incorporated by r... Oxford English Dictionary
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HMS Venturer (1807)
HMS Venturer was launched at Livorno in 1807 as the French privateer Nouvelle Enterprise. Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Ships built in Livorno wikipedia.org
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George Peckham (merchant)
Sir George Peckham (died 1608) was an English merchant venturer. Life He was third son of Sir Edmund Peckham. wikipedia.org
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HMS Venturer (P68)
HMS Venturer was a Second World War British submarine of the V class that sank two German U-boats and five merchant ships during the war. Merchant ships sunk During her career, she sank five merchant ships all off the Norwegian coast. wikipedia.org
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Barry Laight
He later went to Birmingham Central Technical College (later Aston University), and the Merchant Venturer's Technical College in Bristol. wikipedia.org
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Foster Robinson
He was President of The Grateful Society in 1940, Master of Clifton Rugby Football Club 1943–1944, Master of The Society of Merchant Venturers, 1943–1945 He was the owner and breeder of Homeward Bound, who won the 1964 Oaks; Huguenot, winner of 19 races; and Merchant Venturer, second to Relko in the 1963 wikipedia.org
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Bertram Charles Hill
Although Bertram's family was immersed in the Bristol clothing industry, he chose a different career path, and graduating from the Merchant Venturer's wikipedia.org
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Robert Hayman
Although Edward Sharpham dedicated a play to him in 1607 there is nothing further known about his activities for twenty years until he emerges as a venturer Colonial career Hayman was appointed the Newfoundland colony's first and only governor in 1618 when Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers received a wikipedia.org
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Frank William Wills
He initially attended Mill Hill School in London and Amersham Hall in Buckinghamshire, before entering the Merchant Venturer's Technical College in Bristol wikipedia.org
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David Robertson (engineer)
which was the main publication for the trade in the UK; he and his students undertook research on clocks and pendulums (some funded by the Society of Merchant Robertson became Professor of Electrical Engineering in Merchant Venturer’s Technical College in 1902. wikipedia.org
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Jocosa Frankland
She married, first Henry Saxey, a "merchant venturer", and afterwards William Frankland of Rye House, Hertfordshire, whom she outlived. wikipedia.org
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John Guy (colonial administrator)
Warden in the Bristol Merchant Venturer's Society. Guy was buried in St Stephen's Church, which was known as the church for the Bristol Merchant Venturer's Society. wikipedia.org
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Minety
Notable inhabitants Captain Giles Penn, Merchant Venturer out of Bristol and Jeanne Gilbert (of Yorkshire) – grandparents of the Quaker, William Penn, wikipedia.org
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