Macgregor Laird (1808 – 9 January 1861) was a Scottish merchant pioneer of British trade on the River Niger. Laird's commercial expedition between 1832 and 1834 to navigate the Niger and initiate trade between Europeans and Africans northwards of the coast was considered a failure: the majority of the passengers died and the volume of trade realized was minimal. However, his experience provided information about the design of vessels suitable on the Niger and the various settlements in the interior of the Niger Delta.
Laird never returned to Africa but instead devoted himself to the development of trade with West Africa and especially to the opening up of the countries then forming the British protectorates of Nigeria. One of his principal reasons for so doing was his belief that this method was the best means of stopping the slave trade and raising the social condition of Africans.
MacgregorLaird (1808 – 9 January 1861) was a Scottish merchant pioneer of British trade on the River Niger. Laird's commercial expedition between 1832...
centuries. The company was founded in 1852 by MacgregorLaird, the younger son of the shipbuilder William Laird, and based in Birkenhead. The main focus of...
for a third and final time, as leader of an expedition organised by MacgregorLaird and other Liverpudlian merchants, with the intention of founding a...
dying of fever or wounds from native attacks. One of the survivors, MacgregorLaird, subsequently remained in Britain but directed and funded expeditions...
and American and was noted for her luxurious interiors. Designed by MacgregorLaird and built by Curling and Young of London, she was fitted for 154 passengers...
in the build process of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. MacgregorLaird: (1808-1861) Founder of the British and American Steam Navigation Company...
malaria, and aided by the medicine, a Liverpool merchant, MacgregorLaird, opened the river. Laird's efforts were stimulated by the detailed reports of a pioneer...
explored the White Nile basin Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826) MacgregorLaird (1808–1861) Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834) Harry Johnston (1858–1927)...
diversified into shipbuilding. The first ship was built in 1861 as No 14. MacgregorLaird was built for the African Steamship Company. Other ships soon followed...
surgeon and naturalist to the Niger expedition sent out in 1854 by MacgregorLaird with government support. The death of the senior officer (Consul Beecroft)...
their local soap-making industry. In the early 1800s, expeditionists MacGregorLaird and R.A.K. Oldfield documented that the Igbo people of Nigeria made...
Western ordered a 1,350 GRT ship for its first liner. As designed by MacgregorLaird, British Queen was fitted for 207 passengers as compared to Great Western's...
African Colonization Expedition, it was opposed by Robert Jamieson, and MacgregorLaird. Some medical planning was done and Royal Navy surgeons carried quinine...
worldwide commerce, Letitia Elizabeth Landon refers specifically to the MacgregorLaird expedition to the Niger River, at that time in progress. This is to...
several years, his plan gained credibility when Scottish shipbuilder MacgregorLaird became an investor. Smith, who is often considered the Father of the...
who was the first Westerner to discover the ancient city of Timbuktu MacgregorLaird (1808–1861), merchant and shipbuilder; pioneered British trade on the...
Hien did not survive his repatriation and died on board the steamship MacGregorLaird off Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Carel van Hien fathered at least three...
Dumbarton. D. and W. Henderson and Company built William Wilberforce and MacgregorLaird in Glasgow. Harland and Wolff built Edward Blyden and Alfred Jones...
He sold the house in 1871 to William LairdMacgregor. William LairdMacgregor (1816–1891) was born William Laird but he told an American woman Ellen McGowan...
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1837, during the Niger Expedition of 1832-1834, Scottish merchant MacgregorLaird published a wordbook compiled from the Igbo homeland. The transition...
Finally the venture gained credibility when the Scottish shipbuilder MacgregorLaird became an investor. A new prospectus was published in The Times in...
Thomas Ashworth in 1847 Eleanor Hester Nicolls (1811–1898), married MacgregorLaird (1808–1861) in 1837 Edwina Anna Nicolls (1814–1902), married John Hill...
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