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Sugar-baker

A sugar-baker, holding a sugarloaf in one hand and a sugar tin in the other, seen above the gate of a former sugar house at Nyhavn 11 in Copenhagen, Denmark

A sugar-baker was the owner of a sugar house, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados. Sugar refining would normally be combined with sugar trading, which was a lucrative business. The architectural historian Kerry Downes gives an example of one sugar baker's house in Liverpool being estimated to bring in £40,000 a year in trade from Barbados.

Sources and external links

  • Kerry Downes. Sir John Vanbrugh: A Biography (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987)
  • "Industries: Introduction"—A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton (1911), pp. 121–132. (Date accessed: 31 March 2006)
  • "Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers"—A database of some of those involved in the sugar refining industry, mainly in the UK, 16th to 20th century. (Date accessed: 6 September 2008)
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