Philip Langton

Resident merchant and then slave-owner and planter in Trinidad, dead by 1817 and probably earlier.

1. In 1803, Langton 'Alcade of the First Election' testified that he had been resident in Trinidad for about 18 years.

2. Jane Higgins, widow of Edward Higgins of Kilfylan King's County Ireland was described as 'sister and sole Heiress-at-law' of Philip Langton of Port of Spain in 1817.

James Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic (2012) p. 98.

1. Edward Alured Draper, An Address to the British Public, on the Case of Brigadier-General Thomas Picton (London, 1806). The pamphlet does not give the date of Langton's testimony, but it appears to have been part of the enquiries into Picton conducted by William Fullarton in 1803.

2. Journal of the House of Lords (1817) Vol. 51 p. 14. The entry refers to a dispute between Jane Higgins and the Earl of Rosse, formerly Sir Lawrence Parsons, and to a decree of 1811.