Samuel Sandbach

Samuel Sandbach, born 1769, was a coroner, bailiff, and mayor of Liverpool, as well as a prolific merchant with links to the West India merchants. The Sandbach family as a whole were heavily involved with globalised slavery, and their enslaving, traficking, and forced labour of tens of thousands of African enslaved people formed much of the basis of their wealth. Sandbach was part of the Sandbach, Tinne & Co. dynasty. They exported sugar, coffee and cotton among other materials from the Caribbean. Samuel Sandbach, after spending about a decade in Grenada with his uncle and meeting his future business partners, James McInroy and Charles Stuart Parker, returned to the Britain in 1801 after they set up the Demerara firm. After setting up the Glasgow branch of the company, Sandbach then moved to Liverpool in 1802 to establish another branch of the enterprise there, and eventually become mayor in 1831. Under the terms of the Slave Compensation Act 1837, Sandbach received compensation of over £35,000 for freeing over 500 slaves.