Alexander McInnes

Resident attorney and slave-owner. Alexander Innes of Banffshire recorded his meeting with Alexander McInnes on his visit to Jamaica in 1823-1824, including their visit together to Farm Pen, of which McInnes was attorney, to Palmer Hut and Rose Hall "managed by McInnes", and to McInnes' own Mount Raza: Innes commented that McInnes was "highly respected and [has] accumulated a large fortune."

1. "A highly-experienced Scots born managing attorney attached to the commercial house of Christie & Taylor, who were entrusted by absentee plantation owners to oversee their Jamaican interests."

2. Benjamin McMahon worked under McInnes on Stirling Castle Estate as an overseer, from January 1830 to May/June 1831. McMahon described McInnes as a conscientious attorney, whose bad management played a part in the downfall of the estate.

3. Vere Langford Oliver recorded a monument or plaque to Hon. Alexander McInnes 09/09/1836, custos rotulorum of St Thomas-in-the-Vale and major-general in the militia in the 65th year of his age, 44 of which he has resided in this island.

Eric J. Graham, 'The Journal of Alexander Innes of Banffshire in Jamaica 1823-1824', Scottish Local History Issue 93 Winter 2015-2106, pp. 31-35.

1. ibid, at p. 31.

2. Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) p. 80.

3. Caribbeana Vol. I p. 217.

We are grateful to Siddharth Singh Ahlawat for his assistance with compiling this entry.