For the botanical illustrator Sydenham Teast Edwards, see Sydenham Edwards
Sydenham Teast (1755–1813) was a Quaker merchant, fur-trader, shipbuilder and shipowner based in Bristol, England, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Life and career
Teast was a shipowner involved in whaling. He had at least eight South Sea whalers between 1786 and 1801.[1] He was also involved in the ivory and timber trade between England and Africa.[2] He constructed Redcliffe Parade in the 1770s, and was also involved in the slave trade, refitting the slaverHector in 1776. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Teast became a significant figure in Bristol's trade with Africa. He was not heavily invested in the slave trade.[3]
He held interests in a few other ships that traded on the coast of West Africa including, African Queen, Brothers. Cam's Delight, Jenny, Recovery, and Sydenham.
Teast's Docks lasted until 1832 at Canon's Marsh, and 1841 at Wapping, where the housing and flats of Merchant's Wharf now occupy the site.
He married Eleanor Buckle in 1796 and Mary Irvin in 1802.[6]
Clayton, Jane M.; Clayton (2016). Shipowners investing in the south seas whale fishery from Britain: 1775 to 1815. Hassobury.
Farr, Graeme (1971). Bristol Shipbuilding in the 19th Century. Bristol Branch of the Historical Association.
Inikori, Joseph E. (2002). Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-01079-9.
Powell, J. W. Damer (1930). Bristol privateers and ships of war. J.W. Arrowsmith: Bristol.
Richardson, David, ed. (1996). Bristol, Africa, and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America, Vo. 4 The Final Years, 1770-1807. Bristol Record Society, c/o Department of Historical Studies, Univ. of Bristol. ISBN0-901538-17-5.
March 12, 2023
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