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A Factor, from the Latin "he who does" (parallel to agent from Latin agens), is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual or other legal entity, notably in the following contexts: An agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own. ...
Mercantile Factor In a relatively large company, there could be a hierarchy, including several gardes of factor, such as - chief factor, e.g. Alexander Grant Dallas (1816-07-25 – 1882-01-03) was both Chief Factor of the west-of-the-Rockies portion of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Governor of Rupert's Land.
The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) TSX: HBC is the oldest corporation in Canada (and the second oldest in North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ...
Colonial Factor In territories without any other 'regular' authorities, especially if in need of defense, the company could mandate its factor to perform the functions of a governor, of course theoretically under authority of a higher echelon, including command of a small garrison, as 16 June 1702 - 2 March 1705 Allen Cathpoole (d. 1705), the only incumbent of the settlement on the island of Pulo Condor off the south coast of Vietnam, founded by the British East India Company (HEIC), but totally destroyed within three years. The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ...
The term is also used to render equivalent positions in other languages, such as:
- Chief factor for the Dutch opperhoofd (literally 'supreme head'; but also used for a native Chieftain, as a Sachem of American Indians), in chief of first the Dutch factory (trading post) established on 20 September 1609 at Hirado by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), next in 1641 as the Dutch factory was moved by order of the Shogunate thereto on Deshima (Dejima, or latinized Decima) Island in Nagasaki Bay; maintained under the Dutch state after the 1795 end of VOC administration till on 28 February 1860 Deshima was abandoned.
Dutch colonial possessions, with the Dutch East India Company possessions marked in a paler green, surrounding the Indian Ocean plus Saint Helena in the mid-Atlantic. ...
In Roman mythology, Decima was one of the Moirae. ...
See also In Scotland a Factor (or property manager) is a person or firm charged with superintending or managing properties and estates -- sometimes where the owner or landlord is unable to or uninterested in attending to such details personally, or in tenements in which several owners of individual flats contribute to the...
Sources and References - WorldStatesmen here Vietnam; see also under various other present countries
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