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Paterson Simons & Company.

British merchant house in nineteenth-century Singapore involved in the tin and gutta-percha trades. William Paterson and Henry Minchin Simons became partners with William Wemys Ker, of Ker, Rawson & Company, in 1853. When Ker retired in 1859, the company became Paterson & Simons.

Source

Ken 1965, Turnbull 1972.

Bibliography

Turnbull, Constance Mary. 1972. The Straits Settlements 1826–67; Indian presidency to crown colony. London: The Athlone Press.

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