 | John Britton, John Hodgson - Architecture - 1812 - 1036 pages
...Hull, only ten or twelve from London, and very few from any other parts of the kingdom. At that period, the active and enterprising spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, revived a branch of commerce which has since been prosecuted with extraordinary success. In 1766, he... | |
 | John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...Hull, only ten or twelve from London, and very few from any other parts of the kingdom. At that period, the active and enterprising spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, revived a branch of commerce which has since been prosecuted with extraordinary success. In 1766, he... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Yorkshire (England) - 1828 - 488 pages
...declined until the year 1765, when it was almost wholly monopolized by the Dutch, BOOK iv. and was at that period reduced to such a languid condition...and send out to the Greenland seas a ship on his own account—an adventure which was thought extremely hazardous, and of which individual speculation did... | |
 | Christopher Thomson - Artisans - 1847 - 432 pages
...and was afterwards entirely monopolized by the Dutch. In about 1766, " the active and enterprizing spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, induced...send out to the Greenland seas, a ship on his own account—an adventure which was thought extremely hazardous, and of which individual speculation did... | |
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Hull were, originally in 1598, the first in England who fitted out ships for the whale fishery, but that trade had declined until the year 1765, when it was almost wholly monopolized by the Dutch, and was at that period reduced to such a languid condition... 