Robert Thompson

Slave-owner in St Andrew, Jamaica. Deceased c. 1827, his trustee and executor in Jamaica was Abraham Hodgson, who sold the enslaved people on Robert Thompson's former estates to Thomas Lundie c. 1830. The will of Robert Thompson was attested in January 1828 in Jamaica; administration was granted in 1835 to his daughter Mary Pears, wife of William Hill Pears. Her son, William Thompson Pears, was a solicitor in Liverpool, senior partner of Pears, Logan and Gibbons, which acted on the estate of Helen Gladstone, the sister of W.E. Gladstone, after her death in 1880, and left £45,000 on his own death in 1918 of The Hall, Kenilworth.

1. Will of Robert Thompson formerly of Liverpool planter of Jamaica made 08/11/1824. He left £500 each to Elizabeth Hatton and Jane Quirk daughters of widows of the same names of Liverpool, and £200 to the daughter of Charles Horsfall one of his trustees. He left the remainder of his property in trust for his daughter Mary.

1. PROB 11/1843/210. Will of Robert Thompson, [formerly of Liverpool],Planter of Island of Jamaica, West Indies Date: 05 February 1835.