Munbee Goulburn

Profile & Legacies Summary

1756 - 1793

Biography

Inherited Amity Hall and Bogue estates in Vere, Jamaica, in 1765 after the death of his father Edward Goulburn and uncle Henry Goulburn. Attended Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. Married 1782 to Susannah, daughter of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd, and his wife Susannah Cope. Three sons, Henry (1784), Edward (1787) and Frederick (1788 - possibly died young). "Lived a profligate life..." with a country seat at Prinknash Park, Gloucestershire, and a townhouse at Great Cumberland Place, London. Listed for tax purposes in Portland Place in 1782. Died suddenly and intestate in 1793 with considerable debts; his estate was inherited by his widow and was placed in Chancery.

Sources

Guide to the microfilm edition of Papers relating to the Jamaica estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House from the Surrey History Centre introduced by Prof. Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University (Wakefield, Microform Academic Publishers, 2008). Ancestry.com, London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932 [database online]. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Susannah Chetwynd

Children

Henry (1784-1856), Edward (1787-1868)

School

Eton College

University

Oxford (Trinity) [1775- ]

Associated Estates (1)

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