Limerick chamber of commerce (founded 1807) Members 1807-15.
Sources: Minutes and local directories. The minutes record members qualified to vote,
together with their fees based on imports and exports at the port. It is not certain if this includes
all members, or only voters. The first definitely complete list of members is for 1813, and then
again for the 1815 charter. By about 1816 at least 11 members were honorary, who had
‘retired’ from business. Some handwriting legibility problems, with some alternate spellings.
The first column is all members over 1807-15 (about 60 in any one year, with about 4345 voting). The third column is the members in 1815 who were charter members (N=63)
agreeing to the new Charter and Bye Laws in 1815, with those marked * being the first
directors. The members are notable for the number of firms and partnerships that join as well
as individuals. There is some double counting between individuals and partnerships; it has not
been attempted to eliminate this since in some years it is the firm recorded as a member, in
other years the individual(s), with perhaps the individual acting as the member changing from
year to year. N=110 overall. The committee was composed of 9 members, elected at the end of
April each year, who then elected a chair. There was no limit on tenure, each election voting
for the whole new committee each year. But under the charter 3 retired each year from the
committee of 9. Most members were corn merchants and were involved in a special corn fund;
but most were also merchants in the wider provision trade, including bread, flour, butter, beef,
pork, hides etc. Almost all would have been exporters. The chamber became Chartered on 2
June 1815, and remains the only chartered chamber in Ireland.
See also: There is no published history of the chamber, but O’Connor, D. P. (1938),
The history and functions of the Limerick chamber of commerce 1807-1902, unpublished MSc.
Thesis, University College Dublin, is useful.
For comment on the early Limerick chamber: Bennett, R. J. (2011) Local Business
Voice (OUP), pp. 173, 188, 206-7, 297-9, etc.
Name
Allan, David
Alpin, John N.
Anglim (Auglin), James
Arthur, Martin
Baker, Robert
Bindon, Francis H
Black, George
Bourke, John & Co.
Brown, John
Carroll, John
Chaytor, Thomas
Clanchy, Bartholomew
Connell, John
Crawford, Robert & Co.
Creagh, Arthur
Creagh, Edmund
Creagh, John Michael
Creagh, Martin
Creagh, Paul
Creagh, Philip
Crilly & Bindon
Role
Charter
member
in 1815
Business
Merchant
Founding committee, and 1808,
1809, 1810, 1811
√
Merchant, corn etc.
√
(? Arthur & O’Hara) hardwaremen
(& Son) Merchant, corn etc.
Committee 1810, 1811
√
√
Sec 1808-15
√
√ (sec)
√
√
Committee 1813, 1814
√
√
√*
√
√
Merchant, corn etc
(& Co.) Merchant, corn etc.
Woollen draper & cloth merchant
Attorney
Merchant
Merchant
Brewer & Merchant, corn etc.
(& Co.) Merchants
Merchant
(Edmund, J & P Creagh) Merchants
Merchant, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc.
(Paul & Philip) Merchants
(Paul & Philip) Merchants
Merchant, corn etc.
Cronin, William & Co.
Dickson, Arthur
Egan, Michael & Co.
Ferguson, Robert jun.
Fisher, James sen
Fisher, James jun
Fisher, Joseph
Fosbery, George Wm.
Furnell, Edward
Gabbett, Daniel
Gabbett, John
Gabbett, Poole
Gabbett, Thomas
Gabbett, William
Gavin, Cornelius
Gavin, Michael
Gavin, Michael, jun.
Geary, Daniel
Gray, Daniel
Hart, Thomas
Harvey, Joseph Massy
Committee 1810
Committee 1808, 1809; retired
1814
Committee 1813, 1814
Committee 1813, 1814
√
√*
√*
√
Committee 1811
Retired 1814
√
√
√
√
Committee 1811
√
Founding committee, and 1808,
1810, 1811; chair 1809
Harvey, Reuben
√
√
√
Hill, John
Hill, William
Hill, Joshua
Hogan, Michael
Kelly & Gavin
Committee 1810 (vice Lyons)
Committee 1813, 1814
√
√*
Kelly, John
Founding committee and 1808,
1809, 1810, 1811, 1814
Committee 1813
Committee 1811
√
Kelly, Thomas
Kennedy, John
Long, Stephen
Lyons, Denis jun.
Lyons, James
Mark, John
Mark, Thomas
Maunsell, Edward
Maunsell, Robert
McNamara, Charles
McNamara, James
McNamara, John N. Esq.
Meade, Charles
Meade, John Thomas
Murray, Richard Thos.
Nugent, Richard
O'Brian, Charles
O’Neill, Alan Francis
O'Neill, Francis & Sons
O’Neill, James
Founding committee and 1808,
1809, 1810 (resigned), 1811
Committee 1810
Founding committee
√*
√
√
√
Committee 1811, Tres 1807-
√
Chair 1811
Founding committee and 1808,
1809, 1811, 1814, chair 1813
Committee 1811
√*chair
√
√
√
Committee 1811
Committee 1813, 1814
√
√*
√
(& Co.) Merchant, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc. & flour factor
(& Co.) Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant
(Fisher, Mark & Fisher) Merchant
(Fisher, Mark & Fisher) Merchant
Merchant
(Fosbery & Chaytor) Esq., Merchant, corn
(Furnells) Banker
Attorney
(John & Poole) Merchant, corn etc.
(John & Poole) Merchant, corn etc.
(? Suddert & Gabbett) Merchant
(? Suddert & Gabbett) Merchant
Merchant
Grocer, merchant, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc.
(Geary & White) Merchant
Merchant, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc
(Harvey, Fisher & Harvey) Merchant,
corn etc.
(Harvey, Fisher & Harvey) Merchant,
corn etc.
(John & William) Merchant, corn etc.
(John & William) Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant, corn etc
(& Co.) Woollen draper & cloth merchant
(Hagen, Michael, Kelly & Gavin)
Merchants, corn etc.
(& Co.) Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant
(Maunsell & Kennedy) Banker
Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant corn etc
Merchant
(Fisher, Mark & Fisher) Merchant, corn
Merchant, corn etc.
(?Willington & Maunsell) Merchants
(Maunsells & Kennedy) Bankers
Merchant, corn etc.
(James & John) Merchant, corn etc.
(James & John) Merchant, corn etc.
(Meades) Banker & corn merchant
(Meades) Banker & merchant
(Richard & Terence) Grocers
Bank?
Merchant
(& Sons) Merchant
(& Sons) Merchant
(& Sons) Merchant
O'Shea, William
O'Sullivan, James
Pennott, John
Pennott, Thomas
Perry (Peny), Thomas
Phelps, James
Phelps, Samuel
Poe, Herman J.
Roche, William
Rochford, Michael
Rochford, Michael P.
Roddan, John
Rodger(s), Robert
Russell, John Norris
Russell, George William
Russell, William
Ryan, Edmund & Sons
Ryan, Lant. & Kennedy
Ryan, Michael
Ryan, William
Ryan, Timothy
Sargent, Joseph
Seymour, Thomas
Shannon, William
Stein, John
Stevenson, David
Studdert, Thomas
Stretch & O'Shea
Waller, Henry
Waller, Thomas
Wallplate, Fitzgibbon
Wallplate, Jacob
Westropp, Ralph
Westropp, Thomas
White, Jasper
Merchant
Merchant, corn etc.
Founding committee
√
√
√
Committee 1811 [became 1st
Catholic MP]
Founding committee and 1808,
1809
Founding committee and 1809
Committee 1808, 1809, 1813,
chair 1810
Committee 1810
√
√
√
Miller, merchant, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant
Merchant, corn etc.
√
√
√
√
Merchant, corn etc
(William & George) Merchants
(William & George) Merchants
(& Sons) Merchants, corn etc.
√
√
√
√
(Lant. & Kennedy) Merchants, corn etc
Merchant
Merchant
Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant, corn etc.
(Seymour & Mark) Merchant, corn etc.
Founding committee & Sec
1807, committee 1808
√
√
√
Chair 1812 [Capt. Loyal
Limerick Volunteers]
Chair 1813, committee 1814;
Retired 1816
Founding committee & chair,
committee 1811, retired 1814
√
√*vice
chair
Hardware and ironmonger
(Stein, Brown & Co.) Distillers
Merchant, corn etc
(Studdert & Gabbett) Merchants
(Stretch & O’Shea) Merchants
(& Co.) Woollen draper & cloth merchant
(& Co.) Woollen draper & cloth merchant
Merchant, corn etc.
Merchant, corn etc
(Ralph & Thomas) Merchants, corn etc.
(Ralph & Thomas) Merchants, corn etc.
Merchant, corn etc.
White, Walter N.
White, William
Whites & McSwiney
Wilkinson, Thomas
Francis
Willington, James
Worrell, John
Merchant
(James & Samuel) Merchant, corn etc
(James & Samuel) Merchant, corn etc
(Poe & Carpenter) Merchants, corn etc.
(Thos & Wm Roche) Bankers
Committee 1811, 1813, 1814
√
Committee 1811
√
√
√
(? Whites & McSwiney) Brewers &
merchants, corn etc
Merchant, corn etc.
(& Co.) Brewers & corn merchants etc.
(Thomas & Francis) Brewer & merchant,
corn etc.
(Willington & Maunsell)
Merchant, corn etc