1741 - 1787
Scottish banker, partner in Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Co., and MP for Edinburgh 1781-84. With Sir William Forbes, the guardians of the infant of Sir James Hunter Blalr were shown as entering into a deed of covenant in 1788 and his widow Lady Jean Hunter Blair was shown as conveying an estate on Tobago in 1799.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/hunter-blair-james-1741-87 [accessed 31/05/2018]; National Library of Scotland 'Legal documents relating to properties in the West Indies belonging to Alexander Ellice and his descendants', Ch. 12669 and 12676.
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MP
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Edinburgh Midlothian
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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:
'Sir James Hunter Blair', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146659669 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
