Corner of Great George Street

More links to trades are found on Park Street and Great George Street, both expensive addresses today and in the past. Alderman Richard Farr, a slave trader had offices nearby and on the corner lived Henry Cruger who was born in New York, but became a local merchant, a Merchant Venturer, Mayor and Alderman and later a Member of Parliament. As an M.P. he was one of the men who spoke in favour of keeping the slave trade, and successfully argued that the trade should be abolished gradually, and that slave owners should be given compensation! He returned to America later in life and became a US Senator for New York.