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John Samuel Swire

John Samuel Swire was a British businessman. He grew his family business, the Swire Group, and expanded the cotton and sugar trade with China. He established the Taikoo Sugar Refinery in Hong Kong and The China Navigation Company on the Yangtze river. He was the instigator and founding chairman of the China and Japan Conference. This shipping cartel existed from 1879 to 2008 and was a major component of the shipping industry from the Far East to Europe.

Early life
John Samuel Swire was born on 24 December 1825 in Liverpool, England. His father, John Swire, was the founder of the Swire Group. ==Career==
Career
Swire established Swire Bros in Melbourne, Australia in 1855. ==Personal life==
Personal life
He was married twice. He first married Abigail Fairrie, the daughter of Adam Fairrie, a sugar refiner from Ayrshire, in 1859. They had a son, John Swire. Abigail died in 1862. Two decades later, in 1881, he married Mary Warren, the daughter of George Warren, a shipowner from Liverpool. They had one son, George Swire. They resided at Leighton House in Leighton Buzzard and maintained a London townhouse at 1, Pembridge Square. ==Death==
Death
He died on 1 December 1898 in London. ==References==
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