House of Battier, Zornlin & Co
London-based company/merchant house (DNA: DAC, Negotie-journal, 1789-1791, no. 589-590)
Actors
Timeline
1781 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Bailey's Northern Directory)
1783 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Longman: The New Complete Guide to All Persons who Have Any Trade Or Concern with the City of London..)
1792 - Bill of exchange drawn by Andreani, Count on Battier, Zornlin & Co was sent by Jefferson, Thomas in Philadelphia to Donald, Alexander. (Founders Online)
1797-5-31 - Bought goods from the East India Company for export. (Henchman: Observations on the Reports of the Directors of the East India Company ..)
1799 - Bankrupted - described as a big Swiss firm. (Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: The risk of bankruptcy among German merchants in eighteenth-century England, p. 15)
1821-3-21 - Bankrupted - described as located in Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate-Street, London. Battier and Zornlin are described as merchants, dealers, chapmen and copartners. (The London Gazette, Part 1)
Notes
See Hoppit, Julian (1987), Risk and Failure in English Business 1700-1800, Cambridge University Press, pp.156-160.
