Samuel Boddington

He was baptised 7 July 1766 at the Baker Street Meeting House (Presbyterian) in Enfield, London, the son of Benjamin and Sarah Boddington.

[1] The Boddington family held large estates in the West Indies and Samuel was left a fortune by his father who had been a director of the South Sea Company as well as a West India merchant with offices at Mark Lane.

But Grace soon tired of her husband's quiet intellectual interests (Henry Fox rather unkindly referred to Samuel Boddington as "the arch-bore old Bod.")

After a court case which awarded £10,000 to Samuel, the couple divorced and Grace married Benjamin in 1798.

[2] Thereafter, Samuel approached his friend, Richard Sharp (politician), a fellow Dissenter, fellow member of the Fishmongers' Company, and both mutual friends of Samuel Rogers, asking if he would join him in business, and eventually a West India company of Boddington, Sharp and Philips (Sir George Philips, 1st Baronet) was established at 17 Mark Lane.