February 26, 1769 - Samuel Staniforth
His career straddled commerce, civic leadership, and the transatlantic slave trade — a combination that was unremarkable by the standards of Liverpool's merchant class but no less significant for it. Staniforth participated in the forced transport of African people across the Atlantic alongside his father, operating within one of the most active slave-trading ports in Britain during the trade's final decades. That he also served as Mayor of Liverpool illustrates how deeply the trade was embedded in the city's institutional life.
From Wikipedia
Samuel Staniforth (26 February 1769 – 5 April 1851) was an English slave-trader, merchant and politician originally from Liverpool.
Staniforth was the son of Thomas Staniforth and Elizabeth Goore. The family was a prominent family from Darnall, Sheffield but Samuel lived for most of his life in Liverpool, where he took part in the slave trade along with his father Thomas.
He was born on Union Street, Liverpool on 26 February 1769 and was educated at Clitheroe School under Thomas Wilson. On 28 April 1800 he married Mary Littledale at St. Thomas' Church, Liverpool. He was Mayor of Liverpool from 1812 to 1813.
Records show that both Staniforth and his father Thomas, took part in the trading of many African slaves between Europe and the United States.
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