Richard Gildart
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Richard Gildart | |
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Member of the British House of Commons for Liverpool | |
In office 1734–1754 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Bootle |
Succeeded by | John Hardman |
Personal details | |
Born | 1673 Liverpool, England, Kingdom of England |
Died | 25 January 1770 | (aged 96–97)
Richard Gildart (1673 – 25 January 1770) was an English merchant from Liverpool who was engaged in the slave trade. He was Mayor of Liverpool three times, 1714, 1731, 1736 and Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1734 to 1754.[1]
Richard was the son of James Geldart and Elizabeth Sweeting of Middleham, Yorkshire. He moved to Liverpool in the 1690s, becoming a freeman of Liverpool Corporation on November 2, 1697. Around 1707, he married Ann Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson (1664-1729), a prominent Liverpool businessman involved in the tobacco trade.[2]
He was a founding member of the African Company of Merchants in 1752, and also was elected to their executive committee in 1758.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Richard Gildart, 1768". www.histopic.co.uk. Histopic. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ Gildart, Charles R. The Gildart-Geldart Families (PDF). Seeking my Roots: Charles Gildart.
- ^ "The Political State of Europe etc". The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. Published ... according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton. 1758.