UCL

Sir Charles Thorold

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1709

Biography

London merchant and Director of the Bank of England. In his will proved 13/04/1709 he left, alongside his English property, his one-seventh share in a plantation on Barbados known as Rowley's (in the parishes of St John and St Joseph), with all the 'lands, houses, mills, servants, negromen and women, cattle, stock and appurtenances thereon' inherited from his brother John Thorold and held in common with John Hill of Salop, to his brother Sir George Thorold.


Sources

PROB 11/507/340.

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
- 1709 [EY] → Joint owner
Rowley's [ Barbados | St John ]

Sir Charles Thorold left his 1/7th interest in Rowley's - which he had inherited from his brother John Thorold - to another brother Sir George Thorold, and identified his co-owner as John Hill of Salop, in his will proved in 1709.

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Director
Bank of England
Banker  
 
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Member of the Court of Directors...

Relationships (1)

Sir Charles Thorold
Business associates
John Hill Mayor of Shrewsbury
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The two men were co-owners [in the ratio 6/7ths to1/7th] of an estate and enslaved people on...