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 | | John Bibby, the fourth of five sons and founder of the shipping company that still bears his name, was born at Eccleston, near Ormskirk in Lancashire on 19th February 1775. |
 | | John's first son, Joseph Mellard Bibby, was born in 1806, the same year that Britain, as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars which had started in 1803, declared a continental blockade from the Elbe to Brest. |
 | | James Jenkinson Bibby, the youngest was the office manager at Liverpool where he remained, John Bibby junior was his father's agent in India and returned to Liverpool on his father's death. |
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