Career
The senior Samuel Enderby founded the Samuel Enderby & Sons company in 1775, when he assembled a fleet of whaling vessels on the Greenwich Peninsula, in the London Borough of Greenwich. Samuel Enderby & Sons was a prominent whaling and sealing firm between 1775 and 1854. Charles married Elizabeth Goodwyn, sister of Mary, and had an orphanage in Coombe Hill, Blackheath.
George Enderby married Henrietta Samson.
They lived in Coombe House near Croydon, Surrey. They had no children.
Samuel Enderby Junior married Mary Goodwyn. They had eight children.
Their daughter Elizabeth (1792–1873) married Henry William Gordon (1786–1865) and became the mother of 12 children, one of whom was Gordon of Khartoum.
Their three sons, Charles, Henry and George, inherited the firm on his death in 1829. Sons Samuel IV & William were cut out of the firm all their life. Charles, Henry, and George never married and had no legitimate children, Samuel IV is reputed to have been married four times.
William Enderby is the only one to have male children.
He sent cargoes "well adapted for the inhabitants" in the Greenwich, which reached Sydney Cove in May 1801, and then in the Britannia. The vessels of the Enderby Brothers company were among the first to explore and chart the Southern Ocean.
The Enderby captain Abraham Bristow discovered the Auckland Islands in 1806, naming one of the islands Enderby Island.