UCL

Alexander Addison Lind

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Slave-owner in Jamaica, apparently resident. His son and namesake was at school in Croydon in the 1851 census.

  1. Mary Lind, who in 1833 married the London merchant James White, MP for Brighton 1860-1874, and who in the 1871 and 1881 censuses was noted as born Jamaica c. 1816, is shown in genealogical sources as the daughter of Alexander Addison Lind. A collection of her botanical watercolours was acquired by Princeton University Library in 1968.

Sources

  1. 'Botanicals of Mary Lind White, https://www.princeton.edu/~graphicarts/2011/09/mary_lind_white.html [accessed 22/10/2017]: the site gives her life-dates as 1810?-1883.

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Manchester 240 (Fair Prospect)
£546 5s 6d
Unsuccessful claimant (Owner-in-fee)
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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
1823 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
Fair Prospect (previously Lower Mayfield?) [ Jamaica | Manchester ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Paintings
Nearly 600 botanical watercolours by Mary White nee Lind, acquired by Princeton University Library in 1968, the purchase 'facilitated by' her great grand-daughter Lady Berwick of Attingham Park near... 
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