Gideon Acland

He fell victim to James Elkin Daniels, later a notorious fraudster, in a forward bargain deal over saltpetre.

He ended as a creditor, money he had paid on behalf of Daniels being treated as a forced loan.

[7] In 1812 Acland was one of a group of petitioners against the 1807 Orders in Council, restricting trade with continental Europe, asked to give evidence to a parliamentary committee.

[9] In his testimony, Acland said that the effect of the 1806 Berlin Decree, in which Napoleon restricted trade with the United Kingdom, was via strict enforcement in Dutch ports to tie up much shipping, including vessels under his direction, during 1807, and also at Bremen.

[12] The leading case in bankruptcy law Lucas v Dorrien from 1817 related to West India Dock Company warrants for sugar and molasses in warehouses, made out in favour of Gideon Acland & Co. (or G. Ackland & Co.)[13][14] Acland married in 1800 Maria Lawford.

[16] In a Loyal Declaration of that year to George IV, he associated with the Colonial Mart Warehouse, 9 Mincing Lane and Robert Heale.