Samuel Enderby Junior (1755–1829) was a British whaling merchant, significant in the history of
whaling in Australia.
Family background
His father,
Samuel Enderby
Samuel Enderby (17 January 171919 September 1797) was an English whale oil merchant, significant in the history of whaling in the United Kingdom. In the 18th century, he founded Samuel Enderby & Sons, a prominent shipping, whaling, and sealing co ...
(1717–1797), founded the
firm named after him in 1775, when he assembled a fleet of
whaling vessels on the
Greenwich Peninsula, on the south bank of the
Thames just downstream of the
City of London.
[Green A, 150 Years Of Industry & Enterprise At Enderby's Wharf]
/ref> Samuel Enderby & Sons was a prominent whaling and sealing firm between 1775 and 1854. He was in partnership with a man named Buxton at St Paul's Wharf,[K.M. Dallas, 'Enderby, Samuel (1756-1829)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, p. 357.]
/ref> i.e. near the cathedral of the City of London.
Samuel Enderby senior married Mary Buxton, a daughter of his partner, and they had three sons, Charles, Samuel, and George, to whom he eventually bequeathed his estate. Samuel Enderby junior was baptised, as recorded in the protestant Dissenters Registry, on 4 June 1755.
Charles married Elizabeth Goodwyn, and had an orphanage in Coombe Hill, Blackheath. This couple had no children of their own but they raised Maria King, daughter of Philip Gidley King (later governor of New South Wales
The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the ...
), until she married Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur
Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur (16 January 1788 – 21 October 1861) was an Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer. The nephew of John Macarthur and son-in-law of former New South Wales governor, Philip Gidley King, he was w ...
, a prominent early colonist of Australia, on 14 February 1813. Mrs. Charles Enderby left her money to a niece, Caroline Hawkins.
George Enderby married Henrietta Samson. They lived in Coombe House near Croydon, Surrey. They had no children.
Career
In 1800, with his partner Alexander Champion, Enderby successfully petitioned that his whalers should be allowed to take provisions for the New South Wales colony to compete with American merchants. He sent cargoes 'well adapted for the inhabitants' in the ''Greenwich'', which reached Sydney Cove
Sydney Cove (Eora: ) is a bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, one of several harbours in Port Jackson, on the coast of Sydney, New South Wales. Sydney Cove is a focal point for community celebrations, due to its central Sydney locatio ...
in May 1801, and then in the ''Britannia''. Enderby's friend, Governor Philip Gidley King, was instrumental in facilitating the whaling and trading activities of the Enderby Brothers firm.
Marriage and children
Samuel Enderby Junior married Mary Goodwyn, sister of his brother's wife Elizabeth, on 2 April 1787 at St Botolph's Aldgate in the City of London.[London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932] They had eight children. Their daughter Elizabeth (1792–1873) married Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and became the mother of 12 children, one of whom was Gordon of Khartoum
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. Their three sons, Charles, Henry and George, inherited the firm on his death in 1829. Sons Samuel IV & William were cut out of the firm all their life. Charles became a member of the Royal Society and died in poverty in 1876. Charles, Henry, and George never married and had no legitimate children, Samuel IV is reputed to have been married four times. He had a daughter, Georgina Mary, who inherited through her mother Mary (née Whyte), his third wife, the estates of the Whytes of Redhills in County Cavan. William Enderby is the only one to have male children.
References
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1756 births
1829 deaths
English businesspeople
British people in whaling
Sealers
Ship owners