Lieutenant General Sir Phineas Riall

Sir Phineas Riall, a soldier with an entry in the ODNB awarded compensation in right of his wife Elizabeth Virgo Riall (nee Scarlett) for enslaved people 'hired upon Peru Estate' in Trelawny, with Mary James Scarlett as heiress of the two women's mother Elizabeth V. Scarlett (q.v. under Elizabeth Virgo Scarlett nee Gallimore). Riall and his wife had also owned a share in Greenfield estate in Trelawny

1. Sir Phineas Riall was made a General 23/11/1841. Burial of Sir Phineas Riall aged 76, abode Paris, at Leamington Priors 19/11/1850. Will of Sir Phineas Riall, General Officer in the Army of 66 Eaton Square proved 27/11/1850.

2. Born Ireland 1775, served in West Indies with 15th Foot 1805-1810, fought in Upper Canada 1813-1814; Governor of Grenada 1816-23; married Elizabeth Scarlett December 1819.

T71/874 Trelawny no. 406.

1. Times 25/11/184; Ancestry.com, Warwickshire, England, Burials 1813-1910 [database online]; PROB 11/2122.

2. E. M. Lloyd, ‘Riall, Sir Phineas (1775–1850)’, rev. Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23470, accessed 12/08/2012] London address from Boyle's Directory (1835).