Peter Whitfield Brancker
Hanging in the Large Ballroom of Liverpool Town Hall is the portrait of Peter Whitfield Brancker (1750-1836), by Joseph Allen. The plaque currently in place (pictured below) describes him as “a descendant of a family which settled in Liverpool in the late 17th century. He was a merchant, trading with the West Indies.”
I think something more appropriate would read as follows:
“Brancker was a slave ship captain, an owner of slave ships, a Jamaican slave plantation proprietor and a slave-produced sugar refiner.”
