John Samuel Swire
(1825-1898)
Died aged c. 73
Wikidata WikipediaJohn Samuel Swire (1825-1898) was a British businessman. He grew his family business, the Swire Group, and expanded the cotton and sugar trade with China. He established the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in Hong Kong and The China Navigation Company on the Yangtze river. He was the instigator and founding chairman of the China and Japan Conference (later known as the Far Eastern Freight Conference). This shipping cartel existed from 1879 to 2008 and was a major component of the shipping industry from the Far East to Europe.
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John Swire 1793-1847 Merchant and founder of John Swire & Sons and his son John Samuel Swire 1825-1898 Far eastern entrepreneur, shipowner, father of shipping conferences and close colleague of Alfred Holt Lived here
33 Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom where they lived