UCL

Dr. Thomas Lashley

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1807

Biography

  1. Administration of the will of Dr Thomas Lashley Doctor of Physick and Fellow of Royal Society now confined in the Kings Bench Prison ['where I have been upwards of ten years'] [made in 1805] was granted 04/04/1807. One of his executors was Hon. Spencer Perceval Attorney-General [and later Prime Minister], the other Isaac Hawkins Browne [MP]. Lashley had he said a 'most just claim secured by mortgage on the estate of the late Benjamin Bostock' of Barbados, which he left to his two daughters Margaret Salter Lashley and Mary Rebecca Salter. His executors appear to have renounced their roles in favour of Margaret Salter Lashley.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1459/36.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?
Children
Margaret Salter; Mary Rebecca

Associated Estates (1)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1805 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Yorkshire plantation [ Barbados | Christ Church ]

In his will made in 1805 Dr Thomas Lashley, then in Kings Bench Prison in England, said he had a 'most just claim' secured by mortgage on the unnamed estate of the late Benjamin Bostock. LBS has tentatively inferred this was the Yorkshire estate.

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Fellow
Royal Society...... 
Details
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For the full record of Lashley's membership of the Royal Society see Royal...

Addresses (1)

Kings Bench Prison, Surrey , South-east England, England
Details