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John Bardwell Ebden M.L.C. (9 April 1787 - 22 Sept 1873) was an influential businessman and politician of the Cape Colony, South Africa. He dominated Cape Town commerce for over sixty years in the 19th century, and was an unofficial member of the Cape Legislative Council. An ambitious and combative personality, he was known by the nickname "the storm petrel", due to his reputation of frequently being in fights.〔http://www.geneall.net/U/per_page.php?id=267661〕〔http://www.southafricansettlers.com/?p=4668〕 ==Early life== JB Ebden was born in 1787 in Suffolk, England, the son of John Ebden, an army surgeon, and Sarah Norman. He received little education, went to sea aged 16 in 1803, and traveled around the Torres Straits and China. On a second voyage, this time destined for India, he was shipwrecked off Cape Town. He received permission to stay at the Cape Colony in October 1806, and began work as a clerk in the Royal Naval Victualling Office. In 1808 he married Antoinetta Adriana Kirchmann, the daughter of an influential German immigrant businessman. He soon left his job and set up a wine merchant business, ''Ebden & Eaton''. Richard Webber Eaton, his partner, was married to Ebden's sister Sarah Ebden in 1814. He built Belmont (Now St Josephs College), Rondebosch, in 1836. This estate became his home and he lived there for the rest of his life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bardwell Ebden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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