John Poynter & Son

Company number:

Not known

Share capital:

£?

Started:

c.1853

Finished:

Reformed as a limited company after 1885

Registered office:

Various, including 72 Great Clyde Street, Glasgow
8 Princes Square, Glasgow

Oil works:

Broxburn - Poynter's Oil Works

John Poynter is first listed as a chemist and drysalter in the 1831 edition of the Glasgow Post Office directory; the title "John Poynter & Son" is first used in 1853. Reference is made to works in Greenock from 1845 and intermittently throughout the life of the firm. Between 1846 and 1852, the listing of a works in Rumford Street, Bridgeton probably reflects John Poytner's role as a partner in George Miller & Co., proprietors of Rumford Street Chemical Works.

John Edgar Poynter (presumably the son of John Poynter) is first listed as "of John Poynter & Co" in 1862; no mention is made the residence of John Poyner after 1865, suggesting his death or his withdrawal from the firm at that time.

Buchan Oil Works, Broxburn is listed between 1867 and 1872, the first three years under the title of "John Edgar Poynter", the subsequent period under the firm of John Poynter and Son.

John Poynter and Son was converted to a limited company c.1890, following the death of John Edgar Poynter in 1889.

Laterly trading as John Poynter, Son, & MacDonald Ltd., the firm remained in business well into the second half of the 20th century; the company being dissolved in 1972.

Partners

John Poynter
John Edgar Poynter

Newspaper references

EDGAR V. JOHN POYNTER & SON.
Rebecca Edgar, 167 Bath Street, Glasgow, here sues John Poynter & Son, Limited, manufacturing chemists and drysalters, 72 Great Clyde Street, Glasgow, for reduction of a memorandum and articles of assignation of the limited company, John Poynter & Son. The pursuer was the aunt and sole residuary of the late John Edgar Poynter,manufacturing chemist in Glasgow and Greenock, and she states that she was induced by Neil Leitch, George Bruce, Alex. Steel, all engaged in the works; Robert Blyth, C.A., Alex. Pattison, solicitor; and William . Spence, engineer, Dublin, to form the business into a limited company of £59,000. The control of Ithe business was, by the agreement, handed over to Bruce, Blyth, and Pattison, aud she conveyed, without consideration, to Leitch 999 fully paid-up £5 shares, and to the other defenders each 199 fully paid-up shares. The pursuer says she never had any intention whatever of forming the business into a limited liability company, nor of makiug presents to the defenders. She did not understand the import and meaning of the deeds she was induced to sign. The defenders reply that all the arrangements for forming the business into a limited company were made by Mr Poynter previous to his death, and that after his death the pursuer agreed voluntarily to carry out the deceased's intentions. All the defenders had been connected with the deceased in business for many years. Lord Kyllachy closed the record in the case today.

Glasgow Herald 4th June 1890

Resources

National Archives of Scotland (NAS) CS228/B/21/41; Court of Session: Unextracted processes, 1st arrangement: E M Binney and Company, Bathgate, county of Linlithgow [West Lothian], James Young, manufacturing chemist, Glasgow, Edward Meldrum, manufacturing chemist, Bathgate, and others v John Miller and Company, manufacturing chemists, Aberdeen, John Miller, Aberdeen, George Miller, junior, Aberdeen, and John Edgar Poynter (individual partners of John Miller and Company): 1st Damages (1861)
National Archives of Scotland (NAS) CS46/1884/7/150; Court of Session: warrants of the Register of Acts and Decreets: Interim decree of exoneration and discharge in multiplepoinding and exoneration, John Edgar Poynter and others, McCrowne's trustees, and others v Edward Manwaring Baines and others (July 1884)

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Listings from successive editions of the Glasgow Post Office directory

Poynter, John, & Co. chemists, drysalters, (1831 )
Poynter, John, Chemist and drysalter (1832-45 with minor variations)
Poynter, John, chemist and drysalter, Low Green st., work; Rumford Street Bridgeton, and 5 Shaws-water, Greenock, house Newstead place. (1846)
Poynter, John, chemist and drysalter, Greendyke street, work; Rumford Street Bridgeton, and 5 Shaws-water, Greenock, house Newstead place. (1847-48)
Poynter, John, Chemist and drysalter, works Milton street, Port-Dundas; Rumford street, Bridgeton and Shaws-water, Greenock; office; 83 Jamaica street, house; Newstead place Govan road.(1849-52)
POYNTER, John, & Son, chemist and drysalters, works; Shaws-water Greenock; office 83 Jamaica St, house 2 South Portland St. (1853)
POYNTER, John, & Son, chemist and drysalters, 83 Jamaica St, house 2 South Portland St. (1855 -56)
POYNTER, John, & Son, chemist and drysalters, 72 Great Clyde St., house, 2 South Portland St. (1857)
POYNTER, John, & Son, chemist and drysalters, 72 Great Clyde St.(1858)
POYNTER, John, & Son, chemist and drysalters, 72 Great Clyde St. ; works Dellingburn st. Greenock. (1861-64)
POYNTER, John & Son, chemist and drysalters; 72 Great Clyde street, and Shaw's Water Chemical Works, Greenock (1865-68)
POYNTER, John & Son, chemists, 72 Great Clyde St, works Dellingburn street Greenock (1869)
POYNTER, John & Son, chemist and drysalters; 72 Great Clyde street, and Shaw's Water Chemical Works, Greenock, and Buchan Oil Works, Broxburn (1870-71)
POYNTER, John & Son. Buchan Oil Works, Broxburn; office, 8 Princes square, Buchanan street (1872)
POYNTER, John & Son. Manufacturing chemists and drysalters, 8 Princes square, Buchanan street, Shaw's Water Chemical Works, Greenock (1872-87)
POYNTER, John & Son, Manufacturing chemists and drysalters, 72 Great Clyde St., works Dellingburn street Greenock (1878-85 and later....)
POYNTER, John, Son, & McDonald, manufacturing chemists and chemical merchants 72 Great Clyde St. stores; 100 Salkeld streer Port-Eglinton, works; Dellingburn st., Greenock; telephone No.s Nat 9352 City' P.O.2290; telegraphic address “Poynter.” (1911)
POYNTER, John E., mineral oil manufacturer, Buchan Oil Works, Broxburn; office; 72 Great Clyde St. (1867-69)
POYNTER, John Edgar, Merchant, 8 Princes Square Buchanan St, Clyde Neuk, Uddingston (1874-77)
POYNTER, John Edgar, (of John Poynter & Son), ho. 167 Bath St. and Clyde Neuk, Uddingston (1878-85)
Poynter, John (of John Poynter & Son), ho. Clydeneuk, Uddingston (1859-65)
Poynter, John E. (of John Poynter & Son), ho. Clydeneuk, Uddingston (1862-72)