#14517, William WANKLYN

It is said that John Bradshaw, a Manchester merchant travelling on business met William and took a fancy to the young man and took him back to Manchester and into his business in 1796 or 97. William married the boss's daughter.

He founded the trading business of Guillermo (William) Wanklyn which used to receive shipments of imported goods. In 1821 William's business, that was now called Hibbert, Wanklyn & Bradshaw was one of the founding financiers of the first Protestant cemetery- el Socorro. William had left Buenos Aires by 1822, the year in which John Robinson was his agent in the country. In 1837 his business continued operating in Montevideo as Bradshaw, Wanklyn & Sons, one of the financial supporters of the Protestant cemetery in that city. Shortly afterwards the business changed its name to Bradshaw, Wanklyn & Jordan whose agents, until 1849, in Buenos Aires were Plowes, Atkinson & Co. In March 1849 the business returned to Buenos Aires and established itself at 72 Reconquista with William's grandchildren in charge.