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Mine was 10 Trinity Square, (technically on Savage Gardens) but it was also very close to the site of Muscovy Court, still an address in 1911, a reference to the Muscovy Company previously headquartered near there.
It has a story going back to 1553. The Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands set out to find a North East passage to Cathay (northern China). After a getting a bit chilly, most ships didn't make it, but one remaining ship found its way to what is now Archangel, then part of Muscovy, named after its well known capital. Abandoning the original mission, the Company focused on trade opportunities there (wool one way and furs, tallow, sea oil the other) and Queen Mary and Philip changed the name to Muscovy Company. The Company lasted until 1917.
https://cityoflondonhistory.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/the-muscovy-company/
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