Samuel Fisher Lafone
Samuel Fisher Lafone was a British-born Uruguayan businessman.
Lafone developed an important economic activity in Montevideo and Argentina. He established a settlement at Hope Place on the southern shores of Brenton Loch, Falkland Islands, in 1846.
In 1851, Mr Lafone's interest in Lafonia , as the place came to be called, was purchased for £30,000 by the Falkland Islands Company, which had been incorporated by charter in the same year.
His name is closely linked to the development of La Teja neighborhood.
He was a decisive promoter of the creation of the Anglican Holy Trinity Temple in Montevideo.
He died in Buenos Aires.
