Robert Edward Alison
1803–66
Merchant and metalworks owner. Resident in Valparaiso, Chile, in the 1830s. Helped CD with geological observations. Partner in the merchant company of Corfield and Co., Valparaiso, and Alison and Co., London; partnership dissolved 1840. Ran a smelting house at Coquimbo, Chile, in the 1850s. Founded the copper works of Compañía Chilena de Fundiciones in Guayacán in 1856. Died at Santa Fe de Bogotá, New Granada, South America.
Sources
England & Wales, christening index, 1530–1980 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 June 2021)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 3 June 2021)
London Gazette, 14 February 1840
Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11 November 1853
Valenzuela 1992, p. 542
Bibliography
Valenzuela, Luis. 1992. The Chilean copper smelting industry in the mid-nineteenth century: phases of expansion and stagnation, 1834–58. Journal of Latin American Studies 24: 507–50.
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