Samuel Lowe

Son of Henry Lowe of Goadby Marwood and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Long (1638-1683). Educated Christ Church, Oxford. Entered Middle Temple 1711. MP for Aldeburgh 1718-1731. Inherited Seven Plantations in Jamaica on the death of his father in 1714 (the estate had come originally from the Long family). Died unmarried; Seven Plantations passed to his sisters Susanna (later married to Theobald Taaffe) and Elizabeth (married to Samuel Moore, and mother of Sir Henry Moore).

Samuel Lowe of Britain, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1732. Slave-ownership at probate: 317 of whom 164 were listed as male and 153 as female. 69 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £14704.16 Jamaican currency of which £8065 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £459.35 currency debts and £10 currency plate.

History of Parliament Online, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lowe-samuel-1693-1731 [accessed 11/07/2018]; Robert Mowbray Howard, Records and Letters of the Longs of Longville, Jamaica and Hampton Lodge, Surrey (1925) vol. 1 pp. 58-59.

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.