UCL

Rev. John Vinicombe

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1808

Biography

Protege of John Price of Penzance the younger (q.v.) and tutor to Price's son Sir Rose Price (q.v.), with whom he both made the Grand Tour and travelled to Jamaica for three years in 1791. John Price the younger left him an annuity of £200 p.a. secured on Spring Garden and Guanaboa.

  1. Matriculated Pembroke College Oxford, 03/03/1778. Fellow until his death in 1808.

  2. Will of Rev. John Vinicombe late Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford proved 26/03/1808. Among other bequests, he left monetary legacies to his sisters in Cornwall and his £200 share in the West India Dock Co. to Rose Price.


Sources

Michael Craton and James Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation: the History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 (1970), pp. 165, 169 and 186.

  1. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]

  2. PROB 11/1476/258.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Clergyman
Religion
Church of England

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
1797 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Annuitant
Spring Garden [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]

Annuitant of £200 p.a secured on Spring Garden and Guanaboa under the will of John Price the younger of Penzance until his death in 1808.

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Paintings
Portrait of Rev. John Vinicombe, by John Opie, given to Pembroke College Oxford by Rose... 
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Relationships (1)

Rev. John Vinicombe
Legatee → Testator
John Price of Penzance, the younger
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Addresses (1)

Pembroke College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Central England, England
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