Horatio Ripley

London East India broker, partner with his brother Frederick Peter Ripley (q.v.).

1. Horatio and Frederick Peter Ripley counterclaimed with Sir Charles Cockerell & Co. as vendees of a currently unknown estate in Mauritius. It is not clear whether they were formally partners in Sir Charles Cockerell & Co. The estate may have been La Poudre D'Or in Riviere du Rempart, previously been owned by the late Jeanne Romanet and then acquired by George Rougier Lagane (q.v.) around 1830.

2. Horatio Ripley, son of John Richard and Harriet Ripley, born 26/11/1787 and baptised 22/12/1787 in St Mary Abchurch, London.

3. London, December 31, 1827. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Copartnership business heretofore carried on by us the undersigned as East India Brokers, was this day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the undersigned John Anthony Wiss who retires from business ; and the said business will in future be carried on by the undersigned Horatio Ripley, Frederick Peter Ripley, and Richard William Ripley, under the firm of Ripley, Brothers.

4. Will of Horatio Ripley broker of Lawrence Pountney Lane City of London proved 31/07/1838. Burial of Horatio Ripley of Lawrence Pountney Lane in his 51st year at Holy Trinity Clapham 24/05/1838, address given as Lawrence Poultney Lane, London.

T71/905 Mauritius no. 4890.

1. See Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives B/MIS/12/2: Memorandum re assignment of debt (due to Jeanne Romanet's estate) from Messrs. George Rougier Lagane and Co. to Messrs. Cazenove, represented in Mauritius by Messrs. Jerome and Joseph Cayron Brothers. Mentions that the plantations of the late Jeanne Romanet Riviere du Rempart, Mauritius have been taken by Joseph Pons Blancard and Emile Thevenin on the terms of liquidating the outstanding debts; that Messrs. Cazenove have since been declared bankrupt, and that Horatio Ripley and Frederick Peter Ripley of Lawrence Pountney Lane, London, merchants, now have an interest in the said debt to the order of £549 12s 6d. Dated 15/01/1836. See slave register entry for Poudre D'Or, T71/623 pp. 3504-3513.

2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]

3. London Gazette 18428 01/01/1828 p. 7.

4. PROB 11/1898/265; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

We are grateful to Jon Ackroyd for his assistance with compiling this entry.