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James Montgomerie

Profile & Legacies Summary

1755 - 1829

Biography

Slave-owner on Dominica. Soldier and colonial governor, and MP for Ayrshire 1818-1829 ('He presented a petition from the planters of Dominica, where he had been governor, against equalizing the East and West Indian sugar duties, 19 Mar. 1823...He voted against the motion to condemn the Jamaican slave trials, 2 Mar. 1826.'). James Montgomerie was shown as the co-owner of the Union estate with James Laing (q.v.). His will, proved 28/04/1829, is brief and left everything to his widow.


Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/montgomerie-james-1755-1829 [accessed 01/04/2017]; will of James Montgomerie, Lt-General in HM's Service and Colonel of the 30th Regiment proved 28/04/1829, PROB 11/1754/287.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Isabella Harriet Jackson
Children
d.s.p.
Wealth at death
£15,000

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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Union [ Dominica ]

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Ayrshire Ayrshire
1818 - 1829

Relationships (1)

James Montgomerie
Business associates
James Laing
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The two men co-owned the Union estate on...

Addresses (1)

Wrighthill, Ayrshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland
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