UCL

Samuel Touchet

Profile & Legacies Summary

1705 - 1773

Biography

Merchant, speculator, MP and slave-trader, part-owner of Dukinfield Hall in Jamaica.


Sources

Sir Lewis Namier, 'Touchet, Samuel (c.1705-1773), History of Parliament online; Kidd, Alan J., 'Touchet, Samuel (c. 1705–1773), merchant and politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

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
1756 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Joint owner
Duckenfield Hall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Shown as part-owner of Dukinfield by Laurence Brown, sourced to London Metropolitan Archives, Acc/0775/805-806, Agreement between Samuel Dukinfield and Samuel Touchet, 6/12/1756; in 1766 he appears to have conveyed his share (a moiety) to Sir George Colebrooke, Arnold Nesbitt and Moses Franks.

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Shaftesbury Wiltshire
1761 - 1768