UCL

James Ramsay Cuthbert

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1821

Biography

MP, and mortgagee on Sir William Young's Betsey's Hope estate on Tobago for £4000. Inherited an East India Co. fortune from his father Arthur Cuthbert. It is possible that Alexander Gordon, John Gordon and Daniel Rucker, who claimed compensation as mortgagees for just under £3000 on Betsey's Hope in the 1830s, were trustees or executors for Ramsay or had purchased the mortgage from him.


Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cuthbert-james-ramsay-1821 [accessed 28/03/2015]. The entry raises the possibility that Cuthbert was a business associate as well as fellow-MP with Charles Brooke (q.v.).

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Sophia Smith
Children
2 s 1 d

Associated Estates (1)

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
1804 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Betsey's Hope [ Tobago | St Paul ]

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

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1807 - 1812