Grantley Berkeley was related to the colonial administrator Sir George Berkeley (1819-1905): born Barbados and descended from a branch of the family of the earls of Berkeley; his mother was Elizabeth Pilgrim, daughter of William Murray, of Bruce Vale estate, Barbados; 1845: appointed colonial secretary and controller of customs of British Honduras, where he was also ex officio member of the executive and legislative councils; 1860–61: administered temporarily the government of Dominica; 1864: appointed lieutenant-governor of St Vincent; 1872-1873: governor-in-chief of the west Africa settlements (Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Gold Coast, and Lagos); 1874: offered, and accepted, the government of Western Australia, but did not take up the appointment; sent instead to the Leeward Islands as governor-in-chief (1874-1881).
Chewton Atchley, ‘Berkeley, Sir George (1819–1905)’, rev. Lynn Milne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30725 [accessed 12/10/2012].
1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
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.
