Simon Knubley

Large-scale attorney and a slave-owner in his own right in Jamaica. Residing in Glasgow when he made his will in 1830.

1. Will of Simon Knubley [late of the island of Jamaica presently residing at] Glasgow Lanarkshire proved 06/05/1837. In the will he left monetary legacies to relatives, many in Cumberland, and instructed his estate in Jamaica be sold with the residual proceeds passing to a great-nephew, the second son of his nephew Edward Carr Knubley, identified in the will only as '____Knubley.' The executors and trustees included William Leckie Ewing and Charles Stirling jun., as well as Edward Carr Knubley. Administration was granted in 1859 to Ann Knubley widow as guardian of Edward Ponsonby Knubley, the eldest son and heir of Rev. Miles Ponsonby Knubley, then the residuary heir. The grant of administration showed Simon Knubley had died at Rockingham in Jamaica 26/09/1836, effects under £300.

2. The Knubleys who were in the first two cases the successive beneficiaries of the will of Simon Knubley were a dynasty of English country parsons: Miles Ponsonby Knubley (1826-1858), curate of Plumbland Cumberland; his son Edward Ponsonby Knubley (1850-1931) Rector of Steeple Ashton, Wilts.; and his grandson Edward Miles Knubley (c. 1878-1950), also Rector of Steeple Ashton.

1. PROB 11/1878/271. The will is indexed online by TNA as 'Simon Kimbley of Glasgow Lanarkshire.'

2. John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses Vol. 2 pp. 69-70; Patrick Armstrong, The English Parson-naturalist: A Companionship Between Science and Religion (2000) pp. 11-12.