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Thomas Parke (merchant)
Thomas Parke (1729/30 – 1819)〔David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, Suzanne Schwarz, ''Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery'' (2007), p. 202.〕 was a Liverpool merchant, banker and privateer.〔http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/chambersofcommerce/liverpool.pdf〕 He was part of the complex network of business interests and finance behind the African and Atlantic slave trade of the later 18th century.
==Life==
He originally from Swaledale, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas and Hannah Parke of Low Row; his father was a hosier and lead miner. He went into business as a linen merchant, initially with his brother John. His brother-in-law Christopher Wilson I of Kendal was another hosier, and Thomas Parke's merchant ventures included exporting Wilson's goods to North America.〔Satchell and Wilson, pp. 15–6.〕
Parke invested in the Atlantic slave trade through many ventures; he withdrew from it in 1792. Another business partner was Wilson's son, Christopher Wilson II, of the Low Wood Gunpowder Company, gunpowder being part of the West Africa trade.〔David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, Suzanne Schwarz, ''Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery'' (2007), p. 130; (Google Books ).〕〔Satchell and Wilson p. 3.〕
Parke lived in Water Street; later he moved to Duke Street, and resided at Highfield House, West Derby, Liverpool, previously owned by Charlotte Murray, Duchess of Atholl, which he bought about 1781.〔John Hughes, ''Liverpool Banks and Bankers, 1760-1837'' (1906), pp. 111–2; (archive.org ).〕
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