In the history of enterprise, Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet as English merchant and politician (1630-1699).
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet was born at London in 1630. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of England.
Commerce then ran on personal credit, family networks and letters that took weeks to arrive; trust was the scarcest asset.
He worked as economist, merchant and politician.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
That the business was built from Kingdom of England shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet died in 1699, aged 69. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
