User:Vernon39/G C Fox (Shipping Brokers)

'G.C.Fox, Shipping Brokers' Vernon said: Thanks for your helpful addition to Fox family of Falmouth. I wonder if G.C.Fox is sufficiently notable to deserve a Wikipedia article in its own right! The article does not currently mention the Fox family's involvement in the development of the docks and the Falmouth Hotel.

Is it possible to identify the founders of the Fishing company with Howard and George Henry Fox, sons of Alfred & Sarah Fox and Robert, son of Barclay Fox? Vernon White '''. . . Talk''' 08:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

>>> David said:

Hello Vernon. Yes, I suspect that there is a good G C Fox story to be told (not that I know very much about it)!

The subscribers to the Falmouth Fishery Company Ltd in 4/1882 were (as I transcribed from TNA file BT 31/14703/16640):

James Whitelock Treviol (accountant) Henry Herbert Cox (merchant) William Henry Lean (shipbuilder) William Henry Williams (accountant) Robert Gloyne (accountant) William Rowe (steam tug owner) Howard, George & Robert Fox (merchants) Richard Sherris (harbourmaster) and other minor players that I did not note.

It was only 18 months later that the company resolved to acquire G C Fox's towing business, and doubled their authorised capital form the original £5000 to be able to do so. Interestingly, by 1888 the only significant shareholders were the Fox family and Henry Cox.

I suppose that the fishery part of the business declined and in 1893 the company's name was changed to The Falmouth Towage Company Ltd.

In 1901 the Directors were: William Henry Williams (now described as shipchandler) Robert Fox (merchant) George Henry Fox (merchant) Edward "Iperise" (accountant)[that looks like a mis-transcription]

In 1921 the company was voluntarily wound up. The towage business seems to have seems then to have been carried on in a small way by Robert Barclay Fox in his own name, until the formation of a new Falmouth Towage Company Ltd in 1931.

David Davidships (talk) 23:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)