John Holt (businessman)

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John Holt (31 October 1841 - 22 June 1915) was an English merchant, who founded a shipping line operating between Liverpool and West Africa, and a number of businesses in Nigeria, which are now incorporated in John Holt plc.

Holt was born in Garthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1841. In 1862, with £27 in his pocket, he sailed from Liverpool to take up an appointment as a shop assistant in a grocery store in Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea). Five years later, he bought out his employer, and he was joined by his brother Jonathan, and the two brothers expanded their business interests in West Africa, forming a partnership, John Holt and Company, in 1884, and a company, John Holt & Co. (Liverpool) Ltd, in 1897.

In 1910 he retired to his home at Broughton Grange, Lincolnshire, where he died in 1915.

References

Bodleian Library: Papers of John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd

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Name	Holt, John
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Date of birth	31 October 1841
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Date of death	22 June 1915
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