Thomas Boddington of Clapton

Profile & Legacies Summary

1735 - 1821

Biography

London West india merchant, retiring from the Boddingtons family firm in 1794. Brother of Benjamin (1730-1791), and uncle of Samuel (1766-1843) (q.v.) and Thomas (1774-1862) (q.v.).

Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Boddington of Clapton, married Isaac Hawkins Browne, in the ODNB as 'politician and industrialist' 13/12/1805 as his second wife. The entry describes Thomas Boddington of Clapton as a West India merchant.
Thomas Boddington of Clapton left £120,000 at his death. His grandsons the Rev. Thomas Fremeaux Boddington and Reginald Brooke Boddington left £50,000 (resworn from £60,000) and £16,000 on their deaths in 1863 and 1871 respectively. Thomas Boddington of Clapton's son Benjamin Boddington (1776-1855) had been a partner with his (Benjamin's) cousin Samuel Boddington (q.v.) before eloping with his wife.

Sources

J.M. Scott, 'Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1745-1818), rev. Stephen M. Lee, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3678, accessed 3 Feb. 2014].
National Probate Calendar 1871.

Further Information

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

Benjamin (1776-1855)

Wealth at death

£120,000

Occupation

West India merchant

Rubinstein

1821/18

Associated Estates (6)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1770 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Calliaqua, later Villa Estate [ St Vincent ]

The mortgage was held by successor partnerships who in 1799 agreed that it be discharged by Bryan Edwards' London firm over the following 5 years. Edwards however died in 1802 and his firm was dissolved.

1792 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder

Camacarabou [ St Vincent | Charlotte ]

1760 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Old Road [ Antigua ]

By a deed of 10/05/1760, William Young then of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds on Antigua and 333 acres of the Old Road estate to secure £7000 to Richard Maitland, Thomas Boddington and Benjamin Boddington. The mortgage grew and passed through the successive iterations of the Boddington firm until 1799.

1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Pembroke [ St Vincent ]

1798 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Pennitenny [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Queensbury [Queensberry] Estate [ St Vincent ]