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Messrs BRYANT, BURNELL & COMPANY
The Plymouth business house of Messrs Bryant, Burnell & Company were sugar refiners. When the partnership was dissolved on September 20th 1856 the partners were: Mr James Bryant; Mr William Burnell; Mr John Burnell; Mr William Eales; and Mr William Henry Hodge. [1] All debts due to and owing from the business were to be received and paid by Mr George Prideaux, of Mill Street, Plymouth. [1] When the legal documents were drawn up for the conveyance and assignment of the old Sugar Refinery, in Mill Street, to the British & Irish Sugar Refinery Company Ltd, for the sum of £70,000, including stock, the names of the partners in Messrs Bryant, Burnell & Company were given as Mr James Bryant; Mr William Burnell; Mr John Burnell, all sugar refiners; Mr William Eales, a sugar refiner from the City of London; Mr William Henry Hodge, sugar refiner of Tiverton, Devon; Mr John Wakeham Sparrow, merchant; Mr William Edgcumbe Rendle, merchant of Plymouth; Mr Benjamin Sparrow, lime merchant, Cattedown; Mr Josias Hayne Dawe, banker; and Mr Eldred Roberts Brown, wholesale grocer. The draft conveyance was dated December 16th 1856. [2] These may have been the original partners when the business was set up as presumably the deed for the building was in their names and therefore they had to be named at the time of transfer to a new owner. Sources:
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