UCL

John Gould MP

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1740

Biography

East India Co. director (as was his father) and husband of Mary Bulkeley, through whom his descendants came into possession of the Bulkeley estate on Barbados. His will proved 05/09/1740 which shows him as of Woodfordbridge Essex was silent on 'slave-property.'


Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/gould-john-1695-1740; PROB 11/704/428.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Mary Bulkeley

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
1724 [EA] - 1740 [LA] → Owner
Bulkeleys [ Barbados | St George ]

This was his wife's property before their marriage. His will was silent on it; his son John reportedly 'recovered' it at law in 1752.

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Shoreham Sussex
1729 - 1734

Relationships (2)

John Gould MP
Father → Son
John Gould 'of Horsham Park'
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John Gould MP
Husband → Wife
Mary Gould (née Bulkeley)
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Addresses (1)

Woodfordbridge, Woodford, Essex, South-east England, England
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