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Sir Thomas Picton

Profile & Legacies Summary

1758 - 1815

Biography

Governor and slave-owner of Trinidad, the subject of controversy for his brutality there (described in the ODNB as "overzealousness"), dying at Waterloo.


Sources

Robert Havard, ‘Picton, Sir Thomas (1758–1815)’, ODNB, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22219; History of Parliament Online, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/picton-sir-thomas-1758-1815.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Rosetta Smith
Children
1 son, 3 daughters
School
Haverfordwest Grammar School
Occupation
Soldier and colonial administrator
Oxford DNB Entry
Visit Oxford Dictionary of National Biography site

Associated Estates (2)

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
1819 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Union [ Trinidad | North Naparima ]
- 1815 [EY] → Joint owner
Union [ Trinidad | North Naparima ]

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Pembroke Boroughs Pembrokeshire
1813 - 1815

Addresses (3)

Iscoed, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Wales
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21 Edward Street, Portman Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Poyston Hall, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Wales
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