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Robert Milligan (1746 – 21 May 1809) was a prominent Scottish merchant and ship-owner, and was the driving force behind the construction of the West India Docks in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Regarde Bien )〕 Having grown up on his wealthy family's sugar plantations in Jamaica, Milligan left Jamaica in 1779 to establish himself in London.〔(History of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce )〕 living in Hampstead for a period.〔'Hampstead: Belsize', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9: Hampstead, Paddington (1989), pp. 51–60. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22638. Date accessed: 19 July 2006.〕 In 1809, the year of his death, Milligan owned 526 slaves who worked at his sugar plantation called Kellet's and Mammee Gully. 〔( 1811 Jamaica Almanac ) 〕 ==West India Docks== Outraged at losses due to theft and delays at London's riverside wharves, Milligan headed a group of powerful businessmen who planned and built West India Docks,〔http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.746/Robert-Milligan-(c17461809).html〕 which was to have a monopoly on the import into London of West Indian produce such as sugar, rum and coffee for a period of 21 years.〔(DLR Teachers' Background Notes, p2 )〕 The Docks' foundation stone was laid in July 1800, when Milligan was Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company – his strong connections with the political establishment of the day were evident from those attending the ceremony, the stone being laid by Lord Chancellor Lord Loughborough and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger as well as Company chairman George Hibbert and himself.〔''Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar'' (1927), Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., Cheltenham. Extract reproduced at (http://www.mernick.co.uk/thhol/pbc1927(03).html ) .〕 The Docks officially opened just over two years later in August 1802. Milligan later also served as Chairman of the Company. 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「Robert Milligan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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