George Hyde

Possibly the son and certainly the partner of James Hyde (q.v.).

1. Described as 'a leading merchant in Belize, himself a slave-owner' and author of a letter defending the treatment of the enslaved in Honduras.

2. Death "At Green Hills, Melbourne, Port-Philip, New South Wales, on the 30th May last. George Hyde, Esq., formerly of Honduras, and Dunoon, Argyllshire."

T71/878 Honduras claim nos. 167 and 169.

1. Rev. J. B. Brindley, Sketches of the Wesleyan mission in British Honduras, to commemorate the Jubilee of Wesley Church, Belize, (Belize, The Calrion Press, 1916) p. 3.

2. Glasgow Herald 18/10/1844.

We are grateful to Peter Sellers for his assistance with compiling this entry.