Brodie McGhie Willcox

Brodie McGhie Willcox ( born November 20, 1784 in Ostend, West Flanders, † November 6, 1862 in Roydon Lodge, Ware, Hertfordshire ) was a Member of the British Liberal Party and co-founder and first Managing Director of the subsequent Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O), one of the then largest shipping companies of the United Kingdom and the world.

Career

After Brodie Willcox had established itself as a shipbroker, he put Arthur Anderson, a first as secretary and then as a partner to a company for waterway connections to the Iberian Peninsula.

In 1837, Willcox with Anderson the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company, which was renamed after the acquisition of the East Asia and Australia service in 1852 as the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ( P & O) .. Willcox was the first Managing Director of this company, which from the 1860s, the largest had steamboat fleet in the world.

1847 Brodie Willcox was after the general election of the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Southampton and remained so for the rest of his life.

In an accident in Willcox died Roydon 1862. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

Familial

Brodie McGhie was married to Sophia Ann Vandergucht (1783-1876) and had a son, Brodie Willcox Augustus (1815-1901), and four daughters: Sophia Ann Willcox (* 1813), Mary Elizabeth Willcox (* 1816), Rose Mary Manning Willcox ( 1818 ) and Ellen Willcox (* 1820).