Peter Meyer (merchant)

Sir Peter Meyer (c. 1664 – 9 January 1728)[1] was a major City of London merchant in the West Indies trade, merchant banker and a co-owner of the leading London international trade firm Meyer & Berenberg.

[1] The son of the Hamburg merchant Jacob Meyer, he settled in London, became an English citizen in 1691 and was knighted at St James's Palace on 9 October 1714.

He owned plantations on Barbados, a sugar refinery in London and the estate Poynter's Grove in Totteridge.

[6][7] They were the parents of the London merchant Peter Meyer (died 1756), who married Sarah; Paul, Rudolph, Elizabeth Meyer, who married her relative William Amsinck (who had become an English citizen in 1711) and Sarah, who married the Hamburg merchant Paul Heeger (died 1731).

Their first child, Johan Heinrich, died young; he was baptised in 1698 and buried in 1699.

Grave of Sir Peter Meyer at St. Andrew, Totteridge , London
Grave of Sir Peter Meyer, detail, with his arms (a savage with a club upon his shoulder) and (a variant of) the arms of the Berenberg family (a bear sitting under a tree holding a palm branch in his paws ppr. )