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Sir John Major, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Major, 1st Baronet

British politician and merchant (1698-1781)

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About Sir John Major, 1st Baronet

Sir John Major, 1st Baronet was a British merchant, Member of Parliament and Sheriff of Sussex. Major was born at Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and started in business there, commanding a ship in the Stockholm trade. He apparently abandoned the sea at the age of around 30, but subsequently developed a thriving iron trade becoming eventually the largest dealer in the country. He built up a considerable fortune, acquiring extensive estates in Suffolk and Sussex and other land elsewhere in England, to a value of around £5,000 a year. Nevertheless, he put his shipping interests at the service of the nation when necessary, apparently at considerable cost to himself, providing ships to transport troops in time of war on more than one occasion.

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member of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain, High Sheriff of Sussex

Born

May 17, 1698

Died

February 22, 1781

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