Sugar-baker

Sugar-baker

A sugar-baker was the owner of a sugar house, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from the Barbados. Sugar refining would normally be combined with sugar trading, which was a lucrative business. Downes gives an example of one sugar baker's house in Liverpool being estimated to bring in £40,000 a year in trade from the Barbados.

ources and external links

*Kerry Downes. "Sir John Vanbrugh:A Biography" (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987)
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22160 "Industries: Introduction"] — "A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton" (1911), pp 121–32. (Date accessed: 31 March 2006] )
* [http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html "Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers"] — "A database of some of those involved in the sugar refining industry, mainly in the UK, 16th to 20th century." (Date accessed: 6 Sept 2008] )


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