Thomas Gowland (1768–1833) was a British trader, who dedicated himself to the import and export of manufactured products in Buenos Aires. He was the patriarch of the Gowland family in the

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, established in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Nicolás at the beginning of the 19th century. Sarah Phillips

Life

He was born in

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, the son of Thomas Gowland and Emma Elizabeth Chamberlayne, a family originally from

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. His grandparents were

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and Elizabeth Atkyns, members of the English aristocracy. He was one of the most distinguished merchants of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, having an active part in the main mercantile activities of the British firms of the Río de la Plata. He maintained an excellent relationship with Buenos Aires society at the time, and also with

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, with whom he used to meet. Thomas Gowland had emigrated to Argentina in 1812, accompanied by his wife Sarah Phillips and sons

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and John. He died on 2 November 1833, when a gun was accidentally fired. He was originally buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Victoria, and transferred to the closing of this to the Gowland family pantheon in The Recoleta Cemetery.

References

External links

www.genealogiafamiliar.netgeneanet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gowland, Thomas 1768 births 1833 deaths Businesspeople from London Journalists from Buenos Aires British emigrants to Argentina Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery Río de la Plata British diaspora in Argentina