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Julius Caesar Czarnikow (1838 – 17 April 1909) was a German-born, London-based sugar broker and investor.

Early life

Julius Caesar Czarnikow was born in 1838 in Sondershausen, in the German Confederation.[1][2] He was of Polish Jewish descent.[3] His father was Moritz Czarnikow and his mother, Johanne Bar.[2] He was baptized 1862 in Berlin, and married in 1863 at Holy Trinity, Clapham.

Czarnikow moved to England in 1854,[4] and he became a British subject in 1861.[5] He resided in Effingham Hill House and Eaton Square (1901 census), London. He married Louisa Ellen Ashlin (1840-1911), with whom he had 2 children : Horace (1864 -1933), and Louisa Ada (1867-1948).

Career

Czarnikow founded a sugar brokerage firm, Czarnikow & Co., in 1861, which now trades as Czarnikow Group Ltd.[5] Its first office was at 18 Philpot Lane, London,[6] and the company later had offices in Liverpool, Glasgow and New York City.[1] He partnered with Manuel Rionda of Cuba, who admitted to Czarnikow in 1909 that he struggled to find the right chemist for sugar manufacturing.[7]

Czarnikow was an investor in a sugar shipping company from the West Indies to Central Europe.[8] By 1872, he was also the largest investor in the South Carolina Phosphate Company.[9] Additionally, by 1888 he was an investor in the London Produce Clearing House,[8] and he served as its deputy chairman.[5]

Death

Memorial Mosaic, St Lawrence's Church, Effingham

Czarnikow died on 17 April 1909 in London.[10] By the time of his death, "he was said to be the biggest sugar broker in the world",[10] with an estimated wealth of £1 million.[8]

At Probate in 1909 his executors included Julius Charles Ganzoni (born 1852 in Austria, died 1949 in Cambridgeshire); the 1911 census stated he was a partner in a firm of colonial brokers, and his son Francis J Childs Ganzoni (born 1882) was a barrister.

References

  1. ^ a b "OBITUARY". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 57 (2944): 465. 23 April 1909. JSTOR 41338589.
  2. ^ a b Orbell, John. "Czarnikow, (Julius) Caesar (1838–1909), sugar broker". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. ^ Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (2003). Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765–1914. New York City: Routledge. ISBN 9780415215763. OCLC 43913171.
  4. ^ Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472905734. OCLC 882574116.
  5. ^ a b c Norman, Peter (2011). The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing in Globalised Financial Markets. New York City: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470686324.
  6. ^ Janes, Hurford; Sayers, H.J (1963). The Story of Czarnikow. London: Harley Publishing Company Ltd. p. 19.
  7. ^ Dye, Alan (1998). Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899–1929. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780804728195. OCLC 36485838.
  8. ^ a b c Chapman, Stanley D. (1992). Merchant enterprise in Britain : from the Industrial Revolution to World War I. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 9780521351782. OCLC 23694086.
  9. ^ Tischendorf, Alfred P. (October 1955). "A Note on British Enterprise in South Carolina 1872–1886". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 56 (4): 196–199. JSTOR 27566023.
  10. ^ a b "London Sugar Merchant Dead". The Leavenworth Times. Leavenworth, Kansas: Newspapers.com. 18 April 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 20 April 2016.


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