Robert Lowndes

A group of annuitants on Richmond (including Robert Lowndes now or late of Chesterfield) reached agreement with Emanuel Baruch Lousada and Jacob Israel Bernal 13/10/1784 for the payment of their annuities to which the two estates [Old and New Works] were subject on their purchase by Lousada and Bernal.

1. Jan 5th [1820] ....at the Hotwells Bristol in his 86th year [death of] Robert Lowndes Esq. formerly of Lea Hall in the Palatine county of Chester and of Chesterfield Derbyshire but late of Widcombe Crescent Bath.

2. The 'will' of Robert Lowndes was proved 25/09/1820. It took the form of 'instructions' and required his executors to sell all his assets and invest the proceeds for 21 years, then to entail the resulting amount to the testator's son Thomas Lowndes for life then to his heirs with contingent remainder to members of the Gorst family.

Caribbeana Vol. III pp. 156-7.

1. Gentleman's Magazine Jan 1820 p. 89.

2. PROB 11/1634/332.