Christopher Jeaffreson II of Dullingham

Profile & Legacies Summary

1699 - 1749

Biography

MP for Cambridge 1744-7, 1748-9. Heir of his godfather (and cousin of his father) Christopher Jeaffreson I of Dullingham, 'succeeded to estates in the West Indies and Suffolk acquired by his great-uncle John Jeaffreson, who had migrated to Antigua in 1624.'

Will of Christopher Jeaffreson of Dullingham proved 22/01/1748 [sic]. In the will oddly, he left nothing to his eldest son Christopher but £2000 each to his son Shuckburgh and daughter Elizabeth (of which she would forego £1500 in favour of her brother Christopher if she married without the consent of her guardians), secured on his estates (including in the West Indies), which he ordered to be sold but left discretion to his wife on the sale of Dullingham.

Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/jeaffreson-christopher-1699-1749 [accessed 25/05/2016]; S.J. and P.O. Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College (1994) pp. 193-196.

PROB 11/767/257.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Elizabeth

Children

Christopher; Shuckburgh; Elizabeth

University

Cambridge (Magdalene) [1717 ]

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

- 1749 [EY] → Owner

Wingfield Manor [ St Kitts | St Thomas Middle Island ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Dullingham House [Built]

Details

description →

Mid-18thC brick house, 'probably constructed by Christopher Jeaffreson (d. 1749) although its plan suggests it may encase an earlier building.' Landscape by Repton c. 1800....