Susanna Passavant (1711–1790), was an English businessperson. She was an internationally influentialluxury goods retailer.^[1]

She belonged to aHuguenot family of jewelers. She apprenticed with theWorshipful Company of Spectacle Makers under the MasterGeorge Willdey, earning her Freedom by Servitude on January 8, 1735. She was established in the City of London. She became a manager at first George Willdey and thenThomas Willdey’s toy shops on Ludgate Street.

In the early 1750s, Passavant opened her own retail shop,The Plume of Feathers, onLudgate Hill. She sold a wide range of goods, including accessories, jewelry and toys. The Plume of Feathers was involved in the sale of luxury goods both domestically and internationally. Through her association with the London merchant house Robert Cary & Company, she exported the sale of jewelry to American customers, includingGeorge Washington andMartha Washington.

Many of her products are preserved, such as jewelry fromMount Vernon.

• 1711 births
• 1790 deaths
• 18th-century English businesspeople
• 18th-century English businesswomen
• English jewellers
• English people of French descent
• Toy inventors
• Toy designers
• Women jewellers
• 18th-century jewellers

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