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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Surname  Thompson    
First names  Charles    
Rank/ occupation  Factor    
Unit  Persian trading    
Death date  14 Dec 1784    
Place of death  Mansfield    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Jan 1785    
Page number  76    
Detail  At Mansfield, aged 76, Mr. Charles Thompson, who was one of the factors of the company of merchants of London trading through Russia into Persia, at the time when the factory at Resht, in the province of Gilan in Persia, was pillaged of goods to the value of £80,000 by one of the pretenders to the throne after the death of Nadir Shah in 1747 and that trade was totally annihilated... [lengthy obituary].    
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