Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, 1811-1821 [1811-1821]

Williams, J, fl 1811-1821

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Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs

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The term 'customs' applied to customary payments or dues of any kind, regal, episcopal or ecclesiastical until it became restricted to duties payable to the King upon export or import of certain articles of commerce. By ordinance of 21 January 1643, the regulation of the collection of customs was entrusted to a parliamentary committee whose members were appointed commissioners and collectors of customs forming a Board of Customs. This and succeeding committees appointed by Parliament until 1660 ...

Boone, Thomas, fl 1811-1821

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Harbord, William Assheton, 1766-1821, 2nd Baron Suffield, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk

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Roe, William, fl 1811-1821

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Wilson, G, fl 1811-1821

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Hume, J. D. (James Deacon), 1774-1842

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Hume was born at Newington, Surrey on 28 April 1774 and received his education from Westminster School. In 1791 he became a clerk and later a controller of customs at Custom House in Thames Street, London. Between 1822 and 1825 Hume was given leave by the Treasury to study the laws of customs. His findings were published in ten acts in July 1825. In 1828 he was appointed joint secretary of the Board of Trade, which he retired from in 1840. During his time at the Board of Trade, Hume undertook an...