PREFACE                                                              5

INTRODUCTORY                                                     7

CHAPTER I.   ENGLAND, 1544-1800                        9

CHAPTER II.   ENGLAND, 1801-1900                      19
   London Refineries                                                20
   Liverpool Refineries                                              23
   Manchester Refineries                                         26
   Bristol Refineries                                                 28
   Plymouth Refineries                                             29
   Southampton and Goole Refineries                       30

CHAPTER III.   SCOTLAND, 1650-1800                    32

CHAPTER IV. SCOTLAND, 1801-1900                    46
   Greenock Refineries                                            47
   Glasgow Refineries                                              60
   Port-Glasgow Refineries                                       64
   Leith and Edinburgh Refineries                              65
   Refinery Fires                                                      67
   Foreign Employees                                              69
   Importers of Raw Sugar to Clyde                           70
   Greenock Imports                                                72
   Molasses                                                            73
   Warrant System in Greenock                                74
   Distributors of Refined                                          75
   Sugar Exchange                                                  76
   Imports of Foreign Refined                                     78
   Scottish Imports                                                   81

CHAPTER V.   IRELAND                                          82

CHAPTER V.   PERSONAL NOTES                          83
   Macfie Family                                                        83
   Fairrie Family                                                         84
   Sir Michael Connal                                                 86
   Mr James Richardson                                             88
   Messrs Kerr and Lyle                                             89
   Mr John Kerr                                                          91
   Mr Abram Lyle                                                       93
   Sir H Tate, Bart.                                                     95

CHAPTER VII.  UNITED KINGDOM, 1801-1900             98
   Rates of Import Duty                                              103
   Drawbacks                                                            103
   United Kingdom Consumption, Nineteenth Century   107
   Exports of British Refined                                       110
   United Kingdom Supplies                                       113
   "Four Ports"                                             114 and 120
   Imports                                           116, 117, 124, 125
   Origin of Supply                                                     121
   Production of Beet Sugar                                        122
   Refiners in 1864, 1882, and 1900                             128

CHAPTER VIII.   MISCELLANEOUS.                           131
   Sugar Bounties                                                       131
   World's Supplies                                                     133
   Cuban Possibilities                                                  134
   Comparative Consumption per Head                          135