Chartered Company

Short description: Company created by charter

A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, or colonization, or a combination of these.^[1]

Notable chartered companies (with years of formation)

Austrian

British

The article Chartered Companies in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, by William Bartleet Duffield, contains a detailed narrative description of the development of some of the companies in England and, later, Britain.^[2]

Dutch

English

French

German

Polish-Lithuanian

Portuguese

Russian

1799–1867 Russian-American Company

Scandinavian

Scottish

Spanish

Italian

From 3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Filonardi was the first Governor of Italian Somaliland and was in charge of an Italian company responsible for the administration of the Benadir territory, called Societa' Filonardi.

1889 – 1893 Filonardi Company

Gallery

Share certificate of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated 16 June 1288
The British East India Company's headquarters in London
The arms of the British South Africa Company

Notes

↑ The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.
↑ The original West India Company collapsed in 1674, and the New West India Company took its place in 1675 and persisted until 1792.
↑ Merger of the Turkey Company and the Venice Company.
↑ Became the largest colonial empire in the 19th century.
↑ Governed Danish India from Trankebar.
↑ Created in connection with the Swedish colony New Sweden (Nya Sverige); absorbed by the Dutch; presently in Delaware.
↑ On the short-lived Swedish Gold Coast.
↑ Created in connection with the colonisation of Saint Barthélemy.
↑ A failed attempt to organise Swedish trade in the eastern Mediterranean region.

References

↑ Tony Webster (25 May 2015). "British and Dutch Chartered Companies". Oxford Bibliographics. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0099.xml.
↑ Duffield, William Bartleet (1911). "Chartered Companies". in Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 950–952.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Björn Hallerdt (1994) (in sv). Sankt Eriks årsbok 1994: Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Samfundet S:t Erik. pp. 9–10. ISBN 91-972165-0-X.

Bibliography

Ferguson, Niall (2003). Empire—How Britain Made the Modern World. London, United Kingdom: Allan Lane.
Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian (2003). The company: A short history of a revolutionary idea. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 9780679642497. https://archive.org/details/companyshorthist00mick.
Ross, R. (1999). A Concise History of South Africa. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521575782. https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof00ross.

External links

Chartered companies
Colonial flags of Mozambique
Hudson's Bay Company
WorldStatesmen
Newspaper clippings about chartered companies ambitions in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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[2] The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.

[4] The original West India Company collapsed in 1674, and the New West India Company took its place in 1675 and persisted until 1792.

[5] Merger of the Turkey Company and the Venice Company.

[6] Became the largest colonial empire in the 19th century.

[7] Governed Danish India from Trankebar.

[8] Created in connection with the Swedish colony New Sweden (Nya Sverige); absorbed by the Dutch; presently in Delaware.

[9] On the short-lived Swedish Gold Coast.

[10] Created in connection with the colonisation of Saint Barthélemy.

[12] A failed attempt to organise Swedish trade in the eastern Mediterranean region.

[1] Tony Webster (25 May 2015). "British and Dutch Chartered Companies". Oxford Bibliographics. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0099.xml.

[3] Duffield, William Bartleet (1911). "Chartered Companies". in Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 950–952.

[pooooook-1994-11] 3.0 ^3.1 Björn Hallerdt (1994) (in sv). Sankt Eriks årsbok 1994: Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Samfundet S:t Erik. pp. 9–10. ISBN 91-972165-0-X.