A sugar-baker was the owner of a sugar house, but also for those who worked in the sugar house, a factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados or Jamaica. Sugar refining would normally be combined with sugar trading, which was a lucrative business. The architectural historian Kerry Downes gives an example of one sugar baker's house in Liverpool being estimated to bring in £40,000 a year in trade from Barbados.
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Sugar-baker in the context of Henry Tate
Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (11 March 1819 – 5 December 1899) was a British sugar merchant, sugar-baker and philanthropist, known for establishing the Tate Gallery and Henry Tate & Sons, which later became Tate & Lyle.
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