UCL

Bartholomew Claypon

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1831

Biography

Provincial banker and annuitant on 'slave-property' in Nevis. Bartholomew Claypon of Boston Lincolnshire was among a group of individuals purchasing, for a total of £15,000, annuities from John Mills secured on the latter's estates and enslaved people on Nevis in 1774, when for £250 he purchased an annuity of £25 p.a., for the lives of himself aged 21 and his wife Jean also 21. He left £140,000 in 1831. Bartholomew Claypon's son, also named Bartholomew, left £180,000 in 1866. The family's bank was a predecessor firm of Lloyds.

  1. Will of Bartholomew Claypon of Boston Lincolnshire proved 28/09/1831.

Sources

Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 65-94; W.D. Rubinstein Who were the rich? rev. ed. Vol. II (2018) 1831/22; National Probate Calendar 1866.

  1. PROB 11/1790/91.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
Bartholomew, Joseph
Wealth at death
£140,000
Rubinstein
1831/22

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
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Annuitant
The Prospect [ Nevis ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Founding partner
Garfit, Claypon ('The Boston Bank')
Banker  
 
Details

Addresses (1)

Boston, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England
Details