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Richard Neale Badcock (1721–1783) was a wealthy London merchant and a director of the South Sea Company.〔Gentleman's Magazine, obituary: 17 August 1783〕 He was baptised at St Martin's Ludgate on 1 July 1721, the son of John Badcock, an eminent London mercer and Eunice Neale, daughter of Noah Neale Esq, of Stamford Baron. He and his brother, John Neale Badcock, carried out considerable trade with linen merchants in Amsterdam〔Wilson, C.H: "Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century", 1941〕 and operated their business at Ludgate Hill, London, just a short distance from Saint Paul's Cathedral,〔Sir Ambrose Heal: 'The Signboards of Old London Shops'〕 and where Richard Neale Badcock is recorded as having been a scholar at St Pauls School. He was a grandson of William Badcock, the London goldsmith and father of William Badcock (1772-1802), who married Sophia Cumberland, a daughter of the dramatist Richard Cumberland, (1732-1811).〔Foster, Joseph: 'The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families, Together With Their Paternal Ancestry', 1884〕 His uncle, the merchant, Richard Badcock (d 1722), married Jane, the daughter of Sir Salathiel Lovell, from which line of the family came a number of prominent military and naval persons, including General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock and Vice Admiral William Stanhope Badcock. ==References== 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「Richard Neale Badcock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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