1795 - 1854
MP (briefly) for Great Yarmouth, and husband of Louisa Catherine, daughter of Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech (q.v.) who left her £10,000 at 21 or at marriage. Counterclaimed for the compensation for the enslaved people on Lear's in Barbados as one of a group of trustees (including his mother the Viscountess Anson and his uncle Sir George Anson) of the marriage settlement of Sir Francis Ford bart. and Lichfield's aunt Mary Anson of 1785. His role must have flowed from his father, Thomas 1st Viscount Anson (d. 1818).
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/anson-hon-thomas-william-1795-1854
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Louisa Catherine Phillips
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£6,956 0s 4d
Unsuccessful claimant (Trustee)
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Political (1) |
MP
election →
Great Yarmouth Norfolk
1818 |
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Son → Mother
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Nephew → Uncle
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First Cousins
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Nephew → Uncle
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Notes →
Thomas William Anson married Louisa Catherine, the daughter of Nathaniel Phillips in 1819, several years after Nathaniel Phillips'...
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Brother-in-laws
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27th Nov 1782 - 8th Dec 1862
Wesleyan Minister, apparently sought to manumit his enslaved people for religious reasons
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:
'Thomas William Anson 1st Earl of Lichfield', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650117 [accessed 21st November 2024].
