Sydenham Teast
{{Hatnote|For the botanical illustrator Sydenham Teast Edwards, see Sydenham Edwards}}
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Sydenham Teast (1755–1813) was a Quaker merchant, fur-trader, shipbuilder and shipowner based in Bristol, England, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Life and career
Teast was a shipowner involved in whaling. He had at least eight South Sea whalers between 1786 and 1801.{{sfnp|Clayton|Clayton|2016|p=152}} He was also involved in the ivory and timber trade between England and Africa.{{sfnp|Inikori|2002|p=245}} He constructed Redcliffe Parade in the 1770s, and was also involved in the slave trade, refitting the slaver Hector in 1776. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Teast became a significant figure in Bristol's trade with Africa. He was not heavily invested in the slave trade.{{sfnp|Richardson|1996|}}
Teast built two drydocks at Wapping on the Avon in 1755, and a further two at Canon's Marsh on the mouth of the River Frome in 1790.{{sfnp|Farr|1971|}} On 9 September 1782, the company launched {{HMS|Hermione|1782|6}}, a fifth-rate 32-gun frigate, the only warship the yard ever built.
Ships built by Teast's in Bristol include:{{sfnp|Powell|1930|}}
- {{ship||Dochfour|1810 ship|2}}, merchant vessel
- Lion (1744), 220 ton, 32-gun privateer.
- Hermione (1782), 716 ton, 32-gun fifth-rate frigate.
- {{ship||Kingston|1811 ship|2}}, merchant vessel
He held interests in a few other ships that traded on the coast of West Africa including, African Queen, Brothers. {{ship||Cam's Delight|1741 ship|2}}, {{ship||Jenny|1783 ship|2}}, {{ship||Recovery|1791 ship|2}}, and Sydenham.
Teast's Docks lasted until 1832 at Canon's Marsh, and 1841 at Wapping, where the housing and flats of Merchant's Wharf now occupy the site.
He married Eleanor Buckle in 1786, by whom he had two sons Sidenham (a Magistrate) and Richard Buckle, and Mary Irvin in 1798, by whom he had a daughter Mary Irvin Teast (1796 - 1801).{{sfnp|Clayton|Clayton|2016|p=17}}
Citations
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References
- {{cite book|last1=Clayton |first1=Jane M. |last2=Clayton |first22=Charles A. |year=2016 |title=Shipowners investing in the south seas whale fishery from Britain: 1775 to 1815 |publisher=Hassobury|isbn=9781526201362}}
- {{cite book|last=Farr |first=Graeme |year=1971 |title=Bristol Shipbuilding in the 19th Century |publisher=Bristol Branch of the Historical Association}}
- {{cite book|last=Inikori |first=Joseph E. |year=2002 |title=Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-01079-9}}
- {{cite book |last= Powell |first=J. W. Damer |year=1930 |title=Bristol privateers and ships of war |publisher=Bristol |location=J.W. Arrowsmith}}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Richardson |editor-first=David |year=1996 |title=Bristol, Africa, and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America, Vo. 4 The Final Years, 1770-1807 |publisher=Bristol Record Society, c/o Department of Historical Studies, Univ. of Bristol |isbn=0-901538-17-5}}
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Category:Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United Kingdom