The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol. The society can be traced back to a 13th-century guild which...
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The Merchant Venturer was a named train of British Railways. It ran over eleven Summer seasons from 3 May 1951 to 9 September 1961. Together with The...
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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. Following the war...
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trace its origins to the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, founded as a school in 1595 by the Society of Merchant Venturers. UWE Bristol is made up...
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Merchant Venturers Almshouses (grid reference ST587727) is a historic building on King Street, Bristol, England. It has been designated as a Grade II*...
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University of Bath (redirect from The University of Bath)
following the Robbins Report. Like the University of Bristol and University of the West of England, Bath can trace its roots to the Merchant Venturers' Technical...
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Edward Colston (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
Corporation and the following year, became a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers. By 1685 he appears as the city's creditor for about £2,000. Although a...
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Bristol Beacon (redirect from List of artists who have performed at the Colston Hall)
a guest of the Youngs when visiting Bristol in 1574. In the late 17th century, a sugar house was established here by the merchant venturer Edward Colston...
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John Cary (businessman) (redirect from John Cary (merchant))
to sail ships across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean. By 1677, Cary joined the Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers and was promoted to become...
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Terence Mordaunt (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
January 2022. "Terence Mordaunt, Author at The Society of Merchant Venturers". The Society of Merchant Venturers. Retrieved 6 March 2022. "Our Team". Forward...
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Festival of Britain (category 1951 in the United Kingdom)
Libraries and part by the Sherlock Holmes pub) The William Shakespeare and The Merchant Venturer, two daily excursion trains run by the Western Region of...
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London. The main image is of 18100 at Bristol on 5 April 1952, having brought in the Merchant Venturer. There are images available of the locomotive...
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Jonathan Webb (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
"New President for Young Bristol". Young Bristol. Retrieved 29 April 2018. "Our Members". The Society of Merchant Venturers. Retrieved 15 June 2020....
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and other places. The merchant adventurers of these towns were separate but affiliated bodies. The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol was a separate...
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John Guy (colonial administrator) (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
the Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers, and he was then elected as the treasurer of the merchant venturers from 1611 to 1612 and then returned the...
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Statue of Edward Colston (redirect from Toppling of the statue of Edward Colston)
Society of Merchant Venturers. Twenty-three models from sculptors were proposed to the committee, from which Cassidy's was selected. The statue was unveiled...
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University of Bristol (redirect from Degrees of the University of Bristol)
received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had...
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Henry Cruger (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
JOHN. (2016). HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF MERCHANT VENTURERS OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL : with some account of the ... anterior merchants guilds (classic reprint)...
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Charles Bathurst (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
Archived from the original on 8 October 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2007. Latimer, John (1903). The history of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol;...
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David Ord (category Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers)
Conservative Party from 1999. He is a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers. He made donations to the local Conservative party, which led to member...
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local organisation the Society of Merchant Venturers. The organisation dates back to the 16th century and had many connections with the Bristol slave trade...
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Massive Attack (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
the original on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013. Nash, Andrew. "The Society of Merchant Venturers". Bristol Slavery. Andrew Nash. Archived from the...
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Harry Grindell Matthews (category British military personnel of the Second Boer War)
ray in the 1920s. Harry Grindell Matthews was born on 17 March 1880 in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire. Matthews studied at the Merchant Venturers' School...
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Glovers Tanners Weavers Society of Merchant Venturers (1552), meets Merchant Hall Butchers Cordwainers Merchants Skinners and Glovers Bakers (1462) Barber...
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Clifton Down (category The Downs, Bristol)
used by many farms in the area. In 1676 and 1686 the manor of Clifton was purchased by the Society of Merchant Venturers. During the 18th century Clifton...
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Clifton Suspension Bridge (category Suspension bridges in the United Kingdom)
less than twenty. The three trustees named in the act were the Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers, the Senior Sheriff of the City and County of...
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some initial grants to the project but soon focused their interest on a rival institution through the Society of Merchant Venturers which was considered...
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Province of Avalon (category 1610 establishments in the British Empire)
Newfoundland fishery. The Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers established the London and Bristol Company (the Newfoundland Company) in 1608 and sent John...
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1951. Together with The Merchant Venturer, this was one of two excursions from London on the Western Region, as part of the Festival of Britain. Both...
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Guild Guildhall Museum Hanseatic League Marketplace Merchant Retail Society of Merchant Venturers Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa: reflections on Chola naval...
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