William Braund (1695–1774) was a merchant in London who engaged in trade with Portugal and was a director of the East India Company.[1]
He built a grand house in Hacton where he lived and developed the surrounding estate.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Sutherland, L. Stuart (1932). "The Accounts of an Eighteenth-Century Merchant: The Portuguese Ventures of William Braund". The Economic History Review. 3 (3): 367–387. doi:10.2307/2599101. ISSN 0013-0117.
- ^ Lucy Stuart Sutherland (2012), London Merchant 1695-1774, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9781136244254
- ^ Tony Benton (14 January 2020), "Around Corbets Tey: Hacton Hamlet", Old Upminster
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