Person military_officer merchant foreign_resident
John Blandy
d. 1855
military_officer · merchant · foreign_resident
British subaltern in the 1801 occupation garrison who founded the Blandy trading house in Madeira by 1808.
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- Blandy — British subaltern in the 1801 occupation garrison who founded the Blandy trading house in Madeira by 1808.
2Chronology
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A British squadron arrived at Funchal, beginning the first British occupation of Madeira; troops under Clinton were quartered in the Jesuit college, the Penha de França fort and the theatre, forcing the seminary back to the Mosteiro Novo.
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During the second British occupation John Blandy already had his trading house established in Madeira.
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John Blandy died.
