Year: 2007
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: DRAMATIS PERSONAEThe Alloway family of Bridgwater in Somerset were merchants and mariners, trading in both European and American waters in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Their involvement in the herring � shery of England's south-west and the cod � shery of Newfoundland led to their investing in the manufacture of salt, that essential preserving agent.Graf� n Prankard (q.v.) married into the family in 1708-they were Quakers, like him-and followed them into the salt business.Nathaniel Alloway, Prankard's cousin, was master of the Baltick Merchant.Reinhold Rütker Angerstein (1718-1760), an ironmaster's son, was appointed to the Bergscollegium in 1738.Between 1752 and 1758 he was engaged in a more or less continuous tour of Europe, visiting the German lands, Hungary, Italy, Spain, France, Britain and the Netherlands.At the time of his death Angerstein held the post of Assessor; only the Bergscollegium's president and his two counsellors outranked him.John Bannister (d.1743) had day-to-day management of the Crowley family � rm after the death of John Crowley in 1728 and was a partner of Crowley Hallett's (q.v.) in the � rm Harrison, Bannister & Hallett.His appearance before the 1737 committee of the House of Commons on the iron trade featured a tendentious warning against the dangers of hardware manufacturing being tolerated in the North American colonies.Anders Berch (1711-1774), professor of economics at Uppsala University from 1741, wrote the � rst economics text-book in Swedish, Inledning til almänna hushålningen, innefattande grunden til politie, oeconomie och cameral wetenskaperne [An introduction to common householding, including the foundations of political, economical and cameral science] (1747).Christer Berch (1733-1792), the son of Anders Berch and his successor as professor of economics at Uppsala.Berch's 'grand tour' in 1757-1761, included a spell in Britain.
Source: BRILL eBooks
Institution: Uppsala University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4205845839