Maple brothers

the brothers Godfrey de Frou-Frou Maple and Maginot de Vere Maple were Parisian chocolatiers, shipwrecked on the coast of Grand Cayman in Die Fliegenden Dudelsäcke in 1891 — an ordeal during which they first encountered George Robert Maguire Ugland, with whom they would forge a lasting and fruitful relationship. The brothers gave the cocoa bean away and established themselves in then scarcely populated islands as attorneys, advising on the financing behind the construction of the Tortuga Rum Company and the Tortuga Cayman Islands Rum Cake Co., Inc. One thing led to another and before you knew it they were world-leading structured finance attorneys. Their firm, Maple, Maple & Cie merged with arch-rival A. J. N. Calder in 1941 to found Maples and Calder.