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From: Edward Andrews <>
Subject: Re: Commission Agent
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:35:55 +0100


Your Name wrote:
>
> On a deed in the 1860s listing my great grandfather, William Henry
> Teggart of Belfast, he calls himself a "commission agent." Later he was
> a merchant. Does anyone know just what a "commission agent" might have
> been?
>
> Sherry Donaldson

Could be merely an agent who would get you anything for a fee. An agent
for commission.

More likely to be a polite name for a bookmaker.
Edward Andrews
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