Freeman Thomas

Absentee slave-owner and Sussex land-owner, awarded the compensation as tenant-in-tail for two estates on Antigua after his father Inigo Freeman Thomas (q.v.) had claimed for the compensation.

1. The will of Freeman Thomas late of Ratton who died 08/03/1859 was proved 16/05/1859 by executors including his widow Amelia Thomas: he left £16,000 in personalty.

2. The descendants of Freeman Thomas included his (posthumous) grandson Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who has an ODNB entry as 'governor-general of Canada and viceroy of India.'

T71/877 Antigua claim nos. 358 (Winthrope's) and 1042 (Galley Bay, St John).

1. National Probate Calendar 1859.

2. D. A. Low, ‘Thomas, Freeman Freeman-, first marquess of Willingdon (1866–1941)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33266, accessed 3 Sept 2015].