| Authorised form of name | Sambrooke; Sir; Jeremy (- 1705); merchant |
| Dates | - 1705 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of death | Edmonton, Middlesex, England, Europe |
| Date of death | 27 April 1705 |
| Occupation | Merchant; Colonial official; Slave trader |
| Activity | Career:
Served in the Honourable East India Company (HEIC); HEIC factor in Madras, India; Commissioner of the HEIC (1677-1687), Deputy Governor (1683-1684, 1695-1698); Assistant to the Royal African Company (1685-1687), Sub-governor (1689); Alderman of the City of London, Cripplgate ward (1687); dissenter; one of the formulators of the bye laws of the Bank of England (1697)
Honours:
Kt 1682
Memberships:
Haberdashers' Company
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 27/04/1681 |
| Proposer | John Houghton |
| Other Royal Society activity | Ordered to take on the Royal Society's stock in the East India Company in his name (1687-1691) |
| Relationships | Parents: Samuel Sambrooke and Mary Anthony Sambrooke
Married: Judith Vanacher
Children: Samuel Sambrooke (afterwards Vanacker Sambrooke) |
| OtherInfo | Sambrooke held important administrative roles in The Royal Adventurers into Africa, later Royal African Company (RAC) from 1685-1689. The RAC was a British trading company established by Royal Charter in 1660 which enslaved and sold African people. The company was chartered by Charles II, the founding royal Patron of the Royal Society, which was also chartered in 1660. The RAC was made up of and funded by members of the Stuart royal family and London merchants many of whom were, or went on to become, Fellows of the Royal Society. The Royal Society itself held shares in the company from 1682 until 1699. The RAC held a monopoly on English trade on the west coast of Africa. The principal interest of the company was originally gold and secondarily other natural resources. The Company's second charter in 1663 mentions trade in enslaved people, who were mainly sold into slavery on British owned estates in the West Indies and America.
Sambroooke was also associated with the Honorable East India Company. The East India Company was an English and later British company formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent (and briefly Afghanistan) and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies, by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, the East India Company rose to account for half of the world's trade, thereby amassing vast wealth, influence and private armies. The East India company used enslaved labour across their territories from 1621 until abolition of slavery in India in 1843. The company ruled large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and seizing administrative functions from local rulers from 1757 until the British Raj which replaced HEIC control with direct colonial rule of India by the British Government in 1858. The Company was dissolved in 1874. The Royal Society owned shares in the HEIC from 1682-1699 and many of its Fellows, such as Sambrooke had positions or financial interests in the Company. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Henning (son's entry)
References:
Govier, M. 1999. 'The Royal Society, Slavery and the Island of Jamaica: 1660-1700', in Notes and Records, vol. 53, pp. 203-217
Will of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke of London, 28 April 1705, The National Archives, Kew PROB 11/481/374
Notes:
See also 'Rulers of London'. Hunter says he was last in 1698 list. |
| Code | NA7348 |