A sugar-baker was the owner of a sugar house, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from

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. Sugar refining would normally be combined with sugar trading, which was a lucrative business. The architectural historian

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gives an example of one sugar baker's house in

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being estimated to bring in £40,000 a year in trade from Barbados.

Sources and external links

* Kerry Downes. ''Sir John Vanbrugh: A Biography'' (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987)
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��''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton'' (1911), pp. 121–132. (Date accessed: 31 March 2006)

��A database of some of those involved in the sugar refining industry, mainly in the UK, 16th to 20th century. (Date accessed: 6 September 2008) Obsolete occupations History of sugar {{Job-stub