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The British Presence in Southern Patagonia
+ + Some "British" Commercial & Industrial Interests (Punta Arenas) + +


Name
Duration
Business
Remarks
A. W. Scott
 
import / export
early import/export business
Alvarez y Reid
active 1946
industrial insurance
 
Soc. Buxton y Dick Ltda.
active 1946
hide and fleece exporters
 
Casa Jacobs
 
store
 
Casa Vickery
early 1900s; active 1946
gentleman's outfitter (British clothes)
owner George Vickery
Charles Williams
1888-?
trading house
oldest British trading house in Magallanes
Club Hipico de Punta Arenas
active 1906
horse-racing
 
Coutts & Rajcevic
active 1946
radio repair
 
David Duncan R.
active 1946
import agents
 
Dick & Bravo
1929-?
trading house
rep. for sheep ranchers; owners John Dick & Custodio Bravo
Douglas R. Lethaby
1910-1913
trading house
rep. for sheep ranchers Douglas-Esperanza, Reynard-Domange, Stanley-Wood (Ea. Monte Aymond); became "Lethaby & Gallie"
Duncan Fox
 
trading house
active throughout Chile
Fundición Milward
1915-1944, at least
workshop, iron and brass foundry
C.A. Milward, partner Lyon?; after Milward's death (1929?), his widow, Isabel Burns, continued operations.
G. P. Brown & Son, Ltd.
 active 1946
import agents
 
Grand Hotel
active 1906
 
 
Hardcastle & Cia
1907-?
import / export
 
Hotel Royal
 
 
 
Lethaby & Gallie
1913-1924
represent interests of sheep farms
1913 D. R. Lethaby formed partnership with Andrew Gallie; 1921 rep. for Hamilton & Saunders; 1924 dissolved
Lloyd de Chile 
active 1946
insurance (fire, marine, risk??, racehorse)
 
Reid & Reid
active 1946
publishers' agents
 
Soc. Rural de Magallanes
active 1921
to promote and improve the sheep industry
 
South American Export Syndicate Ltd.
active 1906
 
 
Townsend & Cia
 
importers and general trade
founder F. H. Townsend; 1921 agent for Lloyds of London and Commercial Union insurance, rep for W Bain & Co, Low & Bonar Ltd, Rabone Bros & Co
William Cooper & Nephews
active 1920
agent for "Coopers" sheep dip
manager: Allan M. McDonald / 1920 T. C. Betheridge
Williamson & Balfour
 
 
 
Wilson, King & Co
active 1946
fire insurance
 

Sources:
(1)  "Los Britanicos en Punta Arenas", Escobar V., Anibal, Santiago 1922;
(2)  "Censo Jeneral del Territorio de Magallanes", Lautaro Navarro,1907-8
(3)  published advertisements in newspapers etc.
Last updated: 7-XII-2002