About Richard Gildart
Lived 1671 – 1770 (aged 98–99). Richard Gildart was a British politician and merchant.
Richard Gildart (1673 – 25 January 1770) was an English merchant from Liverpool who was engaged in the slave trade. He was Mayor of Liverpool three times, 1714, 1731, 1736 and Member of Parliament for Liverpool from 1734 to 1754.
Richard was the son of James Geldart and Elizabeth Sweeting of Middleham, Yorkshire. He moved to Liverpool in the 1690s, becoming a freeman of Liverpool Corporation on November 2, 1697. About 1707 he married Ann Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson (1664-1729), a prominent Liverpool businessman involved in the tobacco trade.
He was a founding member of the African Company of Merchants in 1752, and also was elected to their executive committee in 1758.
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British Member of Parliament (1671-1770)
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Richard Gildart died on 25 January 1770.
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Richard Gildart was a politician and merchant.
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