Charles Kuhn Prioleau (1827-1887)
Anglo-American Confederate Merchant Banker, of Allerton Hall, Liverpool, & London
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and as a cotton merchant became the senior partner of Fraser, Trenholm & Co., Liverpool. He came to England in 1854 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1863. The company of Fraser & Trenholm - based at 10 Rumford Place, Liverpool - was a branch of the longstanding Charleston cotton firm of John Fraser & Co., so when Civil War the two firms joined up and became ideally situated to provide finance, arms and munitions to the Confederate Army. In 1860, he married "The Belle of Liverpool," the daughter of a Scots-Canadian shipowner, Richard Wright, who was then renting Allerton Hall near Liverpool which became their home too. He also built 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, but retired from 1871 to 47 Queen's Gate Gardens, London, before dying at Brown's Hotel in Mayfair.
