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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Surname  Humphries    
First names  John    
Rank/ occupation  Direction of overland dispatches for the EIC    
Death date  1791    
Place of death  Constantinople    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Sep 1791    
Page number  875    
Detail  Lately, Mr John Humphries, an English merchant at Constantinople, who had for some years been entrusted with the direction of the overland dispatches to the East India Company. The charges of the last dispatches transmitted from Constantinople, on the 22nd of April last, amounted to the sum of 21l 10 s 6 d, which, with the annual salary, makes in the whole 71l 10 s 10d. Mr Barbauld succeeds Mr Humphries as agent for the Company, and the mercantile house is now carried on under the firm of Barbauld and Co.    
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