Insurance
Sponsors of Royal Insurance met initially in the offices of Josias Booker. Booker owned 1000 of initial 100,000 shares of £20 each. Initially oveseas fire markets, then life insurance. Josias Booker = Chairman 1849; his brother Septimus Booker was solicitor to the new company.
Slinn & Tanburn 'The Booker Story' p. 21
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
