Michael Dicker Sanders

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Also given as Michael Dicken Saunders and other variants. From a Quaker family in Exeter, great-nephew and heir of Samuel Dicker MP (q.v.), and owner of Rodon's Pen and Morgan's Valley in Jamaica. He rebuilt Walton Bridge between 1783 and 1788. The enslaved people on his estates were registered for his trustees from 1820 onwards and he appears to have been imprisoned for debt in the Fleet Prison between 1814 and 1820. However, he seems to have assigned the tolls from the bridge as early as 1792 and his estates to trustees for creditors in 1796. The Slave Registers for Morgan's Valley (although not for Rodon's Pen) imply that he died between 1823 and 1826.

Sources

A & P (1826-1827) Vol. XIX (3); http://search.lma.gov.uk/LMA_DOC/CLA_018.PDF [accessed 14/08/2016], CLA/018/03/01/006/05.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (4)

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

1775 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner

Morgan's Valley [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]

1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Morgan's Valley [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]

1775 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner

Rodon's Pen [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]

1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner

Rodon's Pen [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Paintings

Old Walton Bridge by Francis Towne 1785, now in the Yale Centre for British Art, probably commissioned by Michael Dicker Sanders and following the earlier pictures by Canaletto of the original wooden...

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