John L. Walcott

Slave-owner in Jamaica, apparently resident. In the 1851 Jamaica Almanac he was shown as Lt-Col. in the Cornwall Regiment of Horse. The will of John Lawrence Walcott of Trelawny was reported to have been registered in 1883 in Jamaica, having been made in 1835 or 1855.

1. Robert John Walcott, son of John Lawrence Walcott of Ashley Hall, became the Chief Justice of British Honduras. He died intestate 09/04/1875 late of British Honduras, formerly of Jamaica and afterwards of Perth Australia where he had been Attorney-General.

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Rwa-we.htm, which cites Supreme Court Will Book I, 456 10/17/1883.

1. Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-bar : a biographical hand-list of the members of the various Inns of Court, including Her Majesty's judges, etc. (1885) p. 485; London Gazette 24277 21 December 1875 p. 6546.