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Sir Andrew Freeport, a Merchant of London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

N. S. B. Gras
N. S. B. Gras
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Harvard University.
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Sir Andrew Freeport belonged to the same club as the better-known Sir Roger de Coverley. Sir Andrew was of the moneyed interest and a great sedentary merchant, while Sir Roger was the typical landed gentleman. Probably a hundred persons have heard of the gentleman to one person who knows about the merchant. But the two were alike in being the creation of Joseph Addison's imagination and in coming to light in the show-case window of The Spectator. Moreover, each was intended to be representative of his type and therefore worthy of unusual attention.

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Business History Review , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 1945 , pp. 159 - 162
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1945

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References

1 See Porter, Kenneth W., “Trends in American Business Biography,” Journal of Economic and Business History, August, 1932, pp. 583–610.Google Scholar