1668 - 1710
Son and heir of Christopher Codrington I (1639/40-1698) and famously the benefactor of All Souls, where the Codrington Library stands as a monument to his legacies to the College of £10,000 - £6000 for the building of the Library, and £4000 to stock it - and of his own books.
Mandelbrote, Scott. "Codrington, Christopher (1668–1710), colonial governor and benefactor." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 19 Apr. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5795; Codrington's father, the son in turn of Christopher Codrington (d. 1656), also has an entry in the ODNB, O'Shaughnessy, Andrew J. "Codrington, Christopher (1639/40–1698), planter and colonial official." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 19 Apr. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-71072.
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University
Oxford (Christchurch); Oxford (All Souls) [1685; 1690 ]
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Library - books
Codrington left £10,000 to All Souls, including £6000 to build the library and £4000 to stock it; he also left it his own collection of...
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Sir William Codrington was the son of Christopher Codrington II's cousin and co-heir Sir William Codrington 1st bart....
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25th Nov 1776 - 1851
Resident clergyman, proponant of religious instruction for enslaved people.
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Christopher Codrington II', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658971 [accessed 20th March 2023].
