UCL

Henry Bromley

Profile & Legacies Summary

1705 - 1755

Biography

Absentee slave-owner on Barbados and MP for Cambridgeshire. Suicide 1755 amidst financial pressures after the squandered his fortune.


Sources

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bromley-henry-1705-55

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
1718 [EA] - 1755 [LA] → Owner
White River [ Barbados | St Philip ]

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire
1727 - 1741

Relationships (2)

Henry Bromley
Son → Father
John Bromley II
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Henry Bromley
Grandson → Grandfather
John Bromley I of White River St Philip's Barbados and Horsheath Hall Cambs.
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Addresses (1)

Horsheath Hall, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, England
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