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Company. In 1880 the businesses were unable to meets their financial commitments. The partners attempted to reach an agreement with their creditors, offering ten shillings in the pound. One creditor (the Merchant Banking Company) believed that the offer should be twelve shilling and six pence in the pound. The case went to court and eventually to appeal. Barton and his partners were declared bankrupt.
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Grindrod was also in partnership with other merchants and these included Charles Durham, Vernon Cochrane and William Hector. They traded in Manchester and London under the firm of Durham and Company, at Rio de Janeiro under the firm of Charles Durham and Company, and at Colombo under the firm
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Grindrod was living in Melbourne, Australia. He was a member of the business community, being elected to the Chamber of Commerce in about June of that year. He imported two "cases" of furniture in 1857, but in December 1858 he was selling "the whole of the modern and useful furniture,
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At some period after this date Barton took up residence in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), from where he operated in partnership with other merchants for about twenty years. Their businesses were described as “Colonial
Merchants and Commission and Insurance Agents” They had some involvement with the tea trade,
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Barton was born in
Liverpool. His mother, Margaret Barton (1805-1852) was the daughter of a Liverpool Iron Master. His father, John Grindrod (1801-1856), was a physician working in the Liverpool Royal Southern and Toxteth Park Hospitals. He was also a keen yachtsman, a member of the Royal Thames
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Grindrod was the fifth of six children. He and his older brother, William (1832-1894), were educated at Cheltenham College as boarders. Barton left when he was fifteen years old in 1849. His brother William, who later became a Church of England minister, left in 1851 aged nineteen and
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The 1891 census shows him living with his widowed sister, Sarah (Grindrod) Pearce, in Crosby, Liverpool. Barton died on 23 May 1895 at
Stanley House, Cosby, Liverpool aged 61 years. His funeral service was on Monday 27 May 1895 at St Luke's Church, Crosby.
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The memories of Sir
Llewelyn Turner : memories serious and light of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Welsh judicature and English judges, admirals and sea-fights, municipal work and notable persons in North Wales, strange crimes and great
154:. Barton's uncle, naval architect and engineer Jonathan Grindrod (1804-1896), was also involved with the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, being the Rear-Commodore. He was responsible for the initial design work on the ill-fated clipper
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that separates India from Sri Lanka. An agreement was drafted between the partners and the
Secretary of State for India for the construction and management of the canal, following a route proposed by
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to finance the project. However, the canal was not constructed and agreement has still to be reached on how best to provide a deep water shipping channel through the Palk Strait; see article
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surgeon-major, Edward
Alexander Lawrance, M.R.C.S.(1836–1873), a widower with one child. He died in Sri Lanka in 1873 aged 37 and was interred in Colombo Galle Face Burial Ground.
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and in a letter to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 30 January 1884, Barton also made claim to the export of eleven elephant to New York in 1871.
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Barton Grindrod and his two partners (Elliott Bradbridge & Henry Jenkins) became involved with a proposal to cut a shipping canal through
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List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated
172:, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1855. Barton's four sisters married into families involved with mercantile businesses in Liverpool.
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Yacht Club, and the first commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. Honorary members of this club included Prime Minister
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and effects" by auction from his residence in Hawthorne.
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238:. In 1887 shares were offered in the
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