Shaftesbury Earl of Craven Lawrence Du Puy Sir Samuel Dashwood Ferdinand Gorges grandson of Ferdinando Gorges Francis, Lord Hawley George Frideric Handel Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys, Commander of affairs of Leeward Isles in England 1690 – c. 1696, Assistant to the Royal African Company 1684–1686, 1692–1698 Sir John Lawrence John Locke Sir John Moore Samuel Pepys James Phipps of Cape Coast Castle Thomas Povey Sir William Prichard Sir Gabriel Roberts Prince Rupert Tobias Rustat Robert Aske Sir John Shaw, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet Matthew Wren Dissolution The Royal African Company was dissolved by the African Company Act 1750, with its assets being transferred to the African Company of Merchants. These principally consisted of nine trading posts on the Gold Coast known as factories: Fort Anomabo, Fort James, Fort Sekondi, Fort Winneba, Fort Apollonia, Fort Tantumquery, Fort Metal Cross, Fort Komenda and Cape Coast Castle, the last of which was the administrative centre. See also List of trading companies Notes Further reading Davies, Kenneth Gordon. The Royal African Company. Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999. Pettigrew, William A. Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. External links British slave trade British colonisation in Africa Chartered companies History of West Africa Defunct companies of England History of Ghana Economic history of Great Britain History of Senegal Trading companies of England 1660 establishments in England Companies established in 1660 British companies disestablished in 1752 17th century in Africa 18th century in Africa Defunct companies of the United Kingdom Economy of Stuart England Trading companies established in the 17th century British slave traders