1792 - 1871
Eminent Victorian geologist and geographer, nephew and legatee of William McKenzie of St Vincent (q.v.) and beneficiary of a monetary legacy of £2000 under the latter's will and a further £2000 under a codicil that was litigated (in favour of Murchison and his co-heirs) in 1826. He was also contingent heir to McKenzie's residuary estate.
T. G. Bonney, ‘Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet (1792–1871)’, rev. Robert A. Stafford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19555, accessed 27 Sept 2015]
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Founder member
British Association......
notes → 'He was president of the geographical and the geological sections of the British Association ten times altogether, and of the association itself (which he helped to found) in 1846.'
T. G. Bonney,...
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President
Geological Society......
notes → Murchison served two terms as President, the first starting in 1831 after he had served as secretary for the five previous years.
T. G. Bonney, ‘Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet...
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President
Royal Geographical Society......
notes → 'He was for sixteen years president of the Royal Geographical Society, for which services he earned the founder's medal in 1871.' T. G. Bonney, ‘Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, baronet...
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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison was described as his brother-in-law in the will of Robert Sutherland, of which Murchison was an executor...
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir Roderick Impey Murchison', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644333 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
