Matthew Locke was a general during the American Revolutionary War, a wagon driver, and a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1793 and 1799.
Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten was Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1827 to 1848.
Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann was a German-born Danish politician, businessman, nobleman, planter and philanthropist.
Christen Friis Rottbøll was a Danish physician and botanist: He was a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus.
Klampenborg is a northern suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in Gentofte municipality, directly on Øresund, between Taarbæk and Skovshoved. Like other neighbourhoods along the Øresund coast, Klampenborg is an affluent area with many large houses.
Sølyst is a former country house located just near the Øresund coast in Klampenborg, Gentofte Municipality, on the northern edge of Copenhagen, Denmark. It now houses the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society.
Johan Christian Conradi was a German born, Danish master builder, contractor and architect.
Reinhard Iselin was a Danish merchant, shipowner and industrialist who founded Reinhard Iselin & Co. in Copenhagen in 1749. The company completed 65 expeditions to the Danish West Indies. Iselin was also active in the Danish Asiatic Company where he served on the board of directors from 1759 to 1769. He owned Iselingen and Rosenfeldt at Vordingborg. He was raised to the peerage with the rank of baron in 1776 but the title died with him since both his sons died as infants.
Christiansholm is a historic house in Klampenborg, Gentofte Municipality, some 10 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built by the merchant Just Fabritius and is now owned by the businessman Fritz Schur.
Johannes Søbøtker was a Danish merchant, planter and colonial administrator who served as Governor of St. Thomas and St. John in the Danish West Indies. His former country house Øregård in Hellerup now serves as an art museum.
Belvedere is a Neoclassical country house located at Strandvejen 407 in Klampenborg, Gentofte Municipality, some 15 kilometres north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was listed by the Danish Heritage Agency in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places on 3 January 1989.
Sir William Gordon (1726–1798) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1783.
The Andreas Bjørn House is a historic property located at the corner of Strandgade and Bådsmandsstræde in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built for Andreas Bjørn in 1734 and listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. A sugar refinery named Union House was from 1771 to 1811 located in a now demolished warehouse adjacent to the building by a group of British merchants and plantation owners from St. Croix in the Danish West Indies.
Christopher MacEvoy Jr. was a Danish merchant, landowner and planter. He was born in the Danish West Indies, where MacEvoy owned the Whim plantation, now a museum, on St. Croix. He later moved to Copenhagen where he established a trading house as well as a sugar refinery at Gammel Strand. He owned Bernstorff Palace in Charlottenlund from 1817 and the Dehn Mansion in Copenhagen from 1818.
William Chippendale (1730s–1802) was an English merchant who was active in Copenhagen from the late 1750s through the mid-1780s. His firm traded on the Danish West Indies. He owned the Andreas Bjørn House at Strandgade 46 in Copenhagen from 1766 and established the sugar refinery Union House on the property in collaboration with a group of planters from St. Croix in the Danish West Indies.
The Dehn Mansion is one of two identical but mirror-imag Rococo-style town mansions on Bredgade, flanking the entrance to Amalienborg via Frederiksgade, in the Frederiksstaden district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Friedrich Ludwig von Dehn, its first owner. The mansion was later divided into two separate properties. The larger, northn part of the mansion is now owned by the Danish Association of Pharmaconomists. The southern part is owned by Karberghus. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918.
Jens Friedenreich Hage was a Danish merchant and landowner.
George Ryan was an Irish-born Danish merchant, ship owner, banker and planter. He continued running a trading house and shipping firm founded by his brother Phillip Ryan. He owned the property at Sankt Annæ Plads 7 in Copenhagen and the sugar plantation Mary's Fancy on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies.
Jens Michelsen Beck was a Danish surveyor, cartographer, landowner and planter. On the island of Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, he owned the Beck's Grove plantation. Beck later returned to Denmark, settling on Gentoftegård north of Copenhagen. His daughter Christiane was married to Ove Malling.
Christopher MacEvoy may refer to:
