3rd Apr 1777 - 10th Mar 1863
4th son of Rev. Robert Ure, minister of Airth, Stirling, and Anne, daughter of James Laurie of Burngrange. Never married. MP for Weymouth and identified as a 'West Indian' MP by Judd: the basis for this is not yet fully understood by LBS but he was 'the leading trustee of the estate of the late Sir John Lowther Johnstone of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire, and guardian of his son George Frederic Johnstone', in which capacity he appears in the Slave Registers for the Westerhall estate in Grenada. Thoroughly reactionary: opposed Catholic Emancipation, Jewish Emancipation, parliamentary reform and in favour of slavery: commenting on the West India Company bill in March 1825 he deprecated attacks on slavery. And also in March 1825 he voted against condemning the Jamaican slave trials.
Entry by Stephen Farrell in History of Parliament online; Gerrit P. Judd IV, Members of Parliament 1734-1832 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1955).
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University
Glasgow University [1790 ]
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Occupation
Lawyer and politician
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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:
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1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Trustee
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MP
Tory / West India interest
election →
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Dorset
1813 - 1832 |
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Trustee → Beneficiary of Trust
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45 Park Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Ure died at 45 Park Street. |
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8 Lower Grosvenor Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Years of residence not known. |
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Lower Brook Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Years of residence not known. |
1788 - 1876
Irish merchant, slave-owner and philanthropist.
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:
'Masterton Ure', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658313 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
