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About Francis Garratt
- Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 622
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FROM THE MORNING HERALD,, From the Morning Herald of December 29, 1791. Price of sugar. n.p. [but probably London, n.d. 1792].
folio, 2 + (2)pp., the second leaf blank, folded for posting, uncut and unbound. A fine, crisp, copy.
Probably very rare. ESTC finds a copy at BL but no other. Not in Ling Roth's Guide to the literature of sugar (1890).
Largely a report, with statistical details, of a well-attended meeting of the "Consumers of Sugar" held on 15th Dec. 1792 at the New London Tavern, Cheapside. The object of the meeting was "to procure a reduction of the present enormous price of sugars to the public". The chairman, a certain Mr. Barwis, observed that "any quantity of sugar might be obtained from the East-Indies". The main report was presented to the meeting by a Mr. Francis Garratt, a wholesale tea-dealer who, while deploring the inflated sugar price being charged by the West Indian suppliers, noted that the domestic problem was that "sugar was become and regarded as an essential necessary of subsistence", and that the lowest description of people had, for many years past, made use of it as such". The meeting resolved to appoint a committee to negotiate with the East India Company, while an approach should be made to the government to reduce "the present high duties on sugars imported from the East Indies".
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Francis Garratt's Timeline
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April 19, 1782
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August 31, 1783
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| 1786 |
December 15, 1786
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London, England
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| 1791 |
November 20, 1791
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Vicar of Cheshunt Herts
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| 1794 |
November 8, 1794
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England (London, Blackheath)
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1794
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| 1808 |
January 2, 1808
Age 48
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Old churchyard, St Paul's, Clapham
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December 26, 1808
Age 48
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