A factor, from the Latin "he who does" (parallel to agent, from Latin agens), is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual or other legal entity, notably in the following contexts:
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Mercantile factor
In a relatively large company, there could be a hierarchy, including several grades of factor, such as
- Chief factor, e. g. Alexander Grant Dallas (1816-07-25 – 1882-01-03) was both Chief Factor of the west-of-the-Rockies portion of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Governor of Rupert's Land. Alexander Grant Dallas ( 25 July 1816 &ndash 3 January 1882) was both Chief Factor of the west-of-the- Rockies portion of Rupert's Land, also sometimes called "Prince Rupert's Land" was a territory in British North America, consisting of the Hudson Bay drainage basin, that
Colonial factor
In territories without any other 'regular' authorities, especially if in need of defense, the company could mandate its factor to perform the functions of a governor, of course theoretically under authority of a higher echelon, including command of a small garrison, notably
- Bantam, on the Indonesian island of Java, since 1603 an English station established by East India Company; it had the following Chief factors:
- 1603 - 16. Bantam ( Banten) in Banten province near the western end of Java was a strategically important site and formerly a major trading city with a secure harbor . William Starkey ; in March 1609 the Station officially becomes a Factory.
- 1613 - 1615 John Jourdain (1st time)
- 1615 Thomas Elkington
- 1615 - 1616 John Jourdain (2nd time)
- 1616 - 1617 George Berkley; next it became the Presidency of Bantam, under British Agents and Presidents (each two periods) till August 1682 when it was lost to the Dutch
- 16 June 1702 - 2 March 1705 Allen Cathpoole (d. Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1702 ( MDCCII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Year 1705 ( MDCCV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a 1705), the only incumbent of the settlement on the island of Pulo Condor off the south coast of Vietnam, founded by the British East India Company (HEIC), but totally destroyed within three years. The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or
The term and its compounds are also used to render equivalent positions in other languages, such as:
- Chief factor for the Dutch oppercommies, for instance of the Dutch West India Company on the Slave Coast of West Africa. Dutch West India Company ( Dutch: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie or GWC; English: Chartered West India Company was a company of The Slave Coast is the name of the coastal areas of present Togo, Benin (formerly Dahomey) and western Nigeria, a fertile region of coastal
- Chief factor for the Dutch opperhoofd (literally 'supreme head'; but also used for a Tribal Chief, as a Sachem of American Indians), e. Opperhoofd is a Dutch word (plural Opperhoofden) which literally means 'supreme head(man' A traditional tribal chief is the leader of a Tribe, or the head of a tribal form of self-government A sachem is a title of leadership historically given to the head of some Native American tribes g. in the Dutch factory (trading post) on Deshima (Dejima, or latinized Decima) Island.
See also
- Cotton factor
- Factor (Scotland), a Scottish type of property manager
- Factory (fur trade)
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