British Peruvians Explained

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British Peruvians are Peruvians of British descent. The phrase may refer to someone born in Peru of British descent. Among European Peruvians, the British were the fifth largest group of immigrants to settle in the country after the Spanish, Germans, Italians, the Swiss or/and the French.

History

Between 1860 and 1950 it is estimated that around 900 British settled in Peru.[1] [2] The regions from which most of the British immigrants originated were Southampton and London, as well as Birmingham and Liverpool.

In 1872, the European Immigration Society (Spanish; Castilian: Sociedad de Inmigración Europea) was founded in Peru. Its objective was promoting Old World immigration by covering the costs of their journeys and financially supporting them during their first settler years in Peru.

They mostly interacted with fellow British immigrants, and were usually relatively skilled at a trade. Many of them intermarried and at the beginning they were united, but as time passed many of them broke the circle. The British corporations owned many Chile saltpeter mines in the Tacna region of Peru during World War I when the territory was ruled by Chile.

Many British Peruvians left the nation in 1960s and 1970s to flee from excessive poverty. Others fled in response to the left-wing dictatorship of Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado and most of these moved to United States, United Kingdom and Spain, while most of the rest to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The second wave of British Peruvians left during the first Alan García regime that led Peru to extreme poverty, hyperinflation and terrorism.

Cultural legacy

Inca Kola was invented by an English immigrant. In 1911, in Rímac, one of Lima's oldest and most traditional neighborhoods, an immigrant English family began a small bottling company under their family name, Lindley. In 1928, the company was formally chartered in Peru as Corporación José R. Lindley S.A., whereupon Joseph R. Lindley became its first General Manager.[3] [4] [5]

Notable people

British Peruvian institutions and associations

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gran Bretaña y el Perú: informes de los cónsules británicos: 1826-1900 . 1975 . Fondo del Libro del Banco Industrial del Perú: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, IEP . Bonilla . Heraclio . (Estudios Históricos . Lima . Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (Lima) . Banco Industrial del Perú.
  2. Web site: Inmigración británica al Perú . 2022-08-10 . www.espejodelperu.com.pe.
  3. Web site: Empresas Transnacionales en el Perú: Breve Reseña Histórica. Transnational Companies in Peru: Brief Historical Review. es. PLADES. January 11, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111022043300/http://sisviso.plades.org.pe/sisviso/empresas.jsp?idempresaf=F0003. October 22, 2011.
  4. Web site: EMPRESAS TRANSNACIONALES EN EL PERÚ: Nestlé Peru S.A.. es.
  5. Web site: Corporación José R. Lindley S.A.. Inca Kola. 2021-06-10. 2012-11-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20121117035757/http://www.incakola.com.pe/. dead.
  6. Web site: Perú . Historia del . 2017-01-08 . Guillermo Billinghurst . 2022-08-10 . Historia del Perú . es.
  7. Web site: 2016-08-22 . Nicolás Lindley López, Presidente del Perú en 1963 . 2022-08-10 . Portal iPerú . es.
  8. News: 1989-09-30 . Guillermo Larco, nuevo primer ministro de Perú . es . El País . 2022-08-10 . 1134-6582.
  9. Web site: Camara de Comercio Peruano Britanica . 2022-08-10 . UniversidadPeru . es.

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