Betsy Miller

During the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, Elizabeth Miller achieved the distinction of being the only woman before or since entered as Captain of a merchant vessel in the Lloyd’s British Registry of Tonnage.

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Dorice Reid

Cook Islands businesswoman, judge and tourism official Dorice Reid was active for decades until her death in 2011, and held the title Te Tika Mataiapo.

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Rachel Pringle Polgreen

In the 1770s and 1780s, hotelier and brothel owner Rachel Pringle Polgreen was one of the first mulatto women to own and operate a business in colonial Barbados.

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