Samuel Enderby Junior

Samuel Enderby (* 1756 in London, England, † 1829 in London, England) was a British businessman, dealer and son of Samuel Enderby ( 1719-1797 ), founder of the London-based whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons.

Life

Little is known about Samuel Enderby life, just when Enderby went into his father's company Samuel Enderby & Sons. At the latest with the death of his father in 1797 he took over ownership and responsibility for one of the UK's largest whaling company of his time.

In order to develop additional sources of revenue to Enderby prisoner transports applied to be allowed to perform in Australia. The British government refused. However, with the inauguration of Philip Gidley King as Governor of New South Wales in 1800 got Enderby as a friend of King, permission to carry out the transport of goods in the colony to Australia. Also in terms of whaling rights stood in his King to the side. Under Enderby 's leadership was the whaling throughout the South Pacific, expanded into Japanese waters and into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mozambique and the Seychelles. 1820 Enderby stepped publicly for the annexation of New Zealand in order to control over the whalers and traders on New Zealand coasts better. With his death in 1829, the Samuel Enderby & Sons went over the responsibility of his three sons, Charles, Henry and George.

In Samuel Enderby time discovering the Auckland Islands fell by Captain Abraham Bristow. Bristow named one of the islands in honor of his boss Enderby Iceland.