Walter Williamson

Resident slave-owner on St Kitts, member of the Assembly for St Thomas Middle Island in 1844, and in the compensation process receiver of estates on Nevis associated with John Richardson Herbert (q.v.) and his family. He reportedly died on St Kitts in 1847. Reid, Irving said of him: 'With the exception of two short visits to England, he resided [on] and managed the [Wingfield Manor] estate and combined with it the cultivation of a small property of his own' between 1836 and 1847. Reid, Irving indicated that he was renting Wingfield Manor at this period from parties in England, and said that Reid Irving's connection began by their taking over Walter Williamson's debt to other parties of £2500, which increased to £16966 15s 4d by the time of his death. By inference, Williamson gave up ownership of Wingfield Manor at the time of compensation in the 1830s.

Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Jan.-April 1844) Vol. I p. 370; Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting (1848), p. 117 evidence of B. B. Greene 05/04/1848.