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Banker in Derby, partner in Crompton, Newton & Co. of Chesterfield which by 1830 appears to have shared all its partners with the similarly-named bank of Derby, although the two did not formally merge until 1877. John Bell Crompton was a legatee of John Hall (q.v.), who left him his [unspecified] estates in Derby. It appears that John Bell Crompton's sister Elizabeth had married John Hall's brother Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall.
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Partner
Crompton, Newton & Co.
Banker notes → A predecessor of the Royal Bank of...
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Legatee → Testator
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Probably also related by marriage: John Hall's brother had married John Bell Crompton's...
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1729 - 1809
Quaker merchant and banker, abolitionist who manumitted enslaved people in Jamaica
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:
'John Bell Crompton of Derby', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146653741 [accessed 31st December 2024].
