George Nibbs

The 1798 Robert Wilkinson map of Tortola shows 'late George Nibbs' next to four lots (nos. 8, 25, 38 and 52).

This was probably one of two men; George Nibbs of Tortola, Collector of Customs and Member of Council whom Vere Langford Oliver shows as dying in 1785 (Oliver shows no family for him); or George Nibbs Esq. from the island of Tortola, barrister-at-law dying in 1796 aged 23, whom the The Survey of London records as having memorial in St Helens Bishopsgate: this latter man would have been young to have been the owner of four estates but might have inherited them and his death-date fits better with the 1798 map.

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. II 'Nibbs Family' p. 293; Survey of London Vol. 9 Parish of St Helen Bishopsgate Vol. I (1924), '24. GEORGE NIBBS, 1796. Plain white marble tablet. 'In Memory of GEORGE NIBBS ESQR. from the Island of TORTOLA. Bar[r]ister at Law of the Inner Temple, who died January 15th; 1796, Aged 23 Years lies Intere'd near this Place.', http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol9/pt1/pp52-79 [accessed 07/02/2018]