City of London merchants

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City of London merchants were influential early modern English traders and financiers based in London’s commercial hub, heavily involved in overseas commerce, including colonial and slave-trading enterprises.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf economic elite
merchant community
social group
activeInCentury 16th century
17th century
18th century
activeInPeriod early modern period
basedIn London, England
surface form: London

London commercial hub
contributedTo growth of British capitalism
integration of global commodity markets
country Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
fieldOfActivity banking
colonial trade
insurance
overseas trade
shipping
slave trade
influenced English commercial policy
development of London as a financial centre
imperial expansion
involvedIn Atlantic trade
Caribbean trade
East India trade
Mediterranean trade
North American trade
West African trade
chartered companies
colonial ventures
plantation economy financing
triangular trade
language English
location City of London
memberOf British East India Company
surface form: East India Company (as individual shareholders and directors)

Hudson's Bay Company
surface form: Hudson's Bay Company (as individual shareholders and directors)

Livery companies of the City of London
surface form: Livery Companies of the City of London

Merchant Adventurers (collective participation)
Royal African Company
surface form: Royal African Company (as individual shareholders and directors)
occupation financier
merchant
participatedIn bill of exchange networks
financing of slave-trading voyages
financing of the British Empire
marine insurance markets
religion predominantly Protestant
socialStatus urban elite
usedInstitution Bank of England
Lloyd’s of London
surface form: Lloyd's of London

Royal Exchange, London
usedPort Port of London

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Royal African Company foundedBy City of London merchants
Lord Mayor of London appointedBy City of London merchants
this entity surface form: Liverymen of the City of London
West India Docks developedFor City of London merchants
this entity surface form: West India merchants
RAC foundedBy City of London merchants
subject surface form: Royal African Company
British opium trade in China keyActor City of London merchants
this entity surface form: British private merchants
Whig economic policy promotedBy City of London merchants
this entity surface form: City of London financiers