William Langmead

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Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Brewer then banker in Teignmouth, Devon who counterclaimed with his partner Robert Jordan (q.v.) for the compensation for the Prospect estate in Portland Jamaica belonging to the Attlay family. Simon D. Smith shows the partners as owed £1000 and as reaching some form of settlement with the awardees of the compensation, the London mortgagees Jegon and Rutherford (q.v.).

  1. The banking firm of Langmead, Jordan and Scott in Teignmouth was dissolved in 1825 with the retirement of William Scott: William Langmead and Robert Jordan carried forward the business together. William Langmead was bankrupt in 1841 and imprisoned for debt in London, but Jordan's partnership with him appears to have been dissolved before Langmead's failure.

Sources

S. D. Smith, An Introduction to the Plantation Journals of Prospect Sugar Estate, with contents of the microfilm (2004), http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97615.pdf [accessed 08/02/2014].

  1. London Gazette 18190 01/11/1825 p. 2005; London Gazette 20051 14/12/1841 p. 3249, which shows William Langmead as having been a brewer in Plymouth, then as a banker with Robert Jordan, and as most recently carrying on business as banker at Teignmouth as Langmead & Co.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Brewer

Associated Claims (1)

£2,809 10s 1d
Unsuccessful claimant (consensual)