Patrick Cruikshank

Partnership Role

Patrick Cruikshank
Senior partner

West India merchant

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Firm Notes

  1. Partnership of Patrick Cruikshank, John Melville, Robert Ramsay  and William Fauntleroy Street, of No. 13 Austin Friars, trading under the firm Cruikshank Melville and Co., dissolved 31/12/1843 as far as concerns Robert Ramsay, dated this 6th day of April 1844

  2. Cruikshank Melville East & West India and NSW merchants, started 1840.

Partners Patrick Cruikshank, John Melville, William Fauntleroy Street of Austin Friars.

Capital of £31,204 2s 9d; by 1841, capital = £55,364 15s 9d.  Jan 1 1845 b/s showed £36,315 15s 1d in equity.

Stopped 1845

Firm Sources

  1. London Gazette 20582 10/3/1846 p. 922

  2. D. Morier Evans: History of the Commercial Crisis 1857-58 Appendix: suspensions