Charles Snewin 1790 - 1866

Charles Snewin ?1790 - 1866, was a British Timber Merchant, Director of Merchants and Tradesman (Life Assurance), Director of the Mutual (Life Assurance) Society, Secretary of the Darren Mining Company, who was an advocate of homeopathy, Member of the Management Committee of the London Homeopathic Hospital,

Snewin lived at Lloyd Square, London, and traded from Church Street, Bethnal Green,

In 1851, Snewin attended the Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity:

The Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity, and in commemoration of the opening of the London Homeopathic Hospital established in London, will be held at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate Street, on Thursday, the 10th of April 1851, the anniversary of the birth of Samuel Hahnemann:

Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort in the chair.

STEWARDS: Henry William Paget Marquess of Anglesey, George Stanhope 6th Earl of Chesterfield, Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl of Essex, John Robert Townshend 1st Earl Sydney, John Gray 15th Lord Gray, Arthur de Vere Capell Viscount Malden, Francis Arthur Gordon, Lord Clarence Paget, Lord Alfred Paget, Culling Charles Smith, Marmaduke Blake Sampson, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Nathaniel Barton, J. Askew, Henry Banister, Henry Bateman 1806-1880, Capt. Branford, F Blake, Hugh Cameron, Captain Chapman, H Cholmondeley, John Burgh Crampern, Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, W. Dutton, Edward Esdaile, W. M. Fache, Fr. Fuller, H Goez, John Gosnell, George Hallett, Edward Hamilton, J Huggins, P Hughes, John Peake Knight, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Thomas Mackern, Victor Massol, J Mayne, Jas Bell Metcalfe, C T P Metcalfe, Samuel Thomas Partridge, T Piper, W Piper, R Pope, Henry Reynolds, Albert Robinson, Henry Rosher, C J Sanders, W Scorer, Rittson Southall, T Spicer, J Smith, C Snewin, Charles Trueman, Thomas Uwins, W. Watkins, J Wisewould, David William Witton, Stephen Yeldham, J G Young,

The responsibility of Stewards is limited to the dinner ticket, 21s., and gentlemen who will kindly undertake the office are respectfully requested to forward their names to any of the Stewards; or to the Hon. Secretary at the Hospital. 32. Golden-square.  Ralph Buchan, Hon. Sec.

Snewin’s business was seriously affected by the failure of Timber Brokers Skeene and Freeman in the commercial crisis in 1857 - 1858, and he had to surrender his estates to his creditors, with liabilities of £24,000. though he continued trading as a timber merchant,

Of interest:

It is possible that Charles Snewin (?or was this his father ?relative) was a publican in 1820, and that he made money from the foundation of the Shoreditch Independent Gas Company, who brought out his land to form the company, There is a record of the discharge of a bankruptcy for a Charles Snewin in 1826,