Sir Robert HarveyJPDL (2 October 1847 – 14 March 1930) was a prominent British saltpetre producer in Bolivia, Peru and Chile during the late 19th century.[1]
Harvey was born in Truro, Cornwall to Samuel Harvey, a tailor. The young Harvey was apprenticed to William's engineering works at Truro.[2] In 1872 he went to Bolivia to work in the Tocopilla Copper Mines and in 1875, moved to Iquique, which was then in Peru, and became involved in the production of saltpetre.[3]
During the War of the Pacific, Harvey was captured at the Battle of San Francisco. Due to his expertise in the nitrate industry, he was recruited to work for the Chilean government. About this time he married Alida María Godefroy who was from a respected Franco-Peruvian family. In 1881, when the Chilean government privatized the nitrate industry, Harvey became managing partner for the firm of J. T. North and Harvey, which he had established with John Thomas North, who was often called the Nitrate King.[3]
By 1883, Harvey had made enough money he decided it was time to return to Britain where he became a landowner in Cornwall and Devon. He bought the Trenoweth estate, near Grampound Road and many properties in the Totnes area including Dundridge House in the parish of Harberton.[2][3]
^"Court Circular". The Times. No. 36375. London. 11 February 1901. p. 9. Retrieved 15 September 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 698. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
^"Lady Brittain". The Times. 7 January 1943. p. 7.
^"Sir Robert Harvey: Former High Sheriff of Cornwall Dead". The West Briton. Truro. 17 March 1930. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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