1807 - 1879
Son of George Mathew (q.v.), and heir of Abednego Mathew (q.v.), his father's cousin, who settled on him the Lyth estate in Shropshire and the Buckley estate on St Kitts. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'politician and diplomatist.' Born George Byam Mathew, he substituted Benvenuto for Byam in 1825 and added Buckley in 1865, in accordance with the will of Abednego Mathew.
H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Mathew, Sir George Benvenuto Buckley- (1807–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40845, accessed 25 Nov 2014]
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British/Irish
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Oxford DNB Entry
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MP
election →
Athlone Westmeath/Roscommon
1835 - 1838 election →
Shaftesbury Wiltshire
1838 - 1841 |
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Legatee → Testator
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George Benvenuto Buckley was also the son of Abednego Mathew's cousin George Mathew...
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Son → Father
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George Mathew settled on his son £24,000 under the latter's marriage settlement. ...
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Lyth, Shropshire, West Midlands, England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'George Benvenuto Buckley-Mathew', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644463 [accessed 25th November 2024].
