UCL

Richard Beavor Wynne

Profile & Legacies Summary

12th Dec 1795 - 24th Oct 1851

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for 91 enslaved people on an estate in the Virgin Islands identified as Great Carrot Bay.  

  1. Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 25, 1814. [Eldest s. of the Rev. Richard, R. of Drumcliff, Co. Sligo (and Catherine Beavor, dau. of Col. Richard Beavor Brown).] B. [Dec. 12, 1795], in Ireland. Matric. Lent, 1815; B.A. 1819. Of the Hermitage, Co. Sligo. Married, 1833, Hannah Matilda, 2nd dau. of Capt. Jones Taaffe Irwin, and had issue. Died Oct. 24, 1851. (Burke, L.G. of Ireland.)

  2. Clerk of the Peace for the County of Sligo at least 1820-1827.


Sources

Virgin Islands no. 96.

  1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online].

  2. Appendix No. 24 to 17th Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the duties, salaries and emoluments of the officers, clerks and ministers of justice in all temporal and ecclesiastical courts in Ireland (1828), Examination of R. B. Wynne Esq.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Hannah Matilda Irwin
University
Cambridge (St John's) [1814-1819 ]

Associated Claims (1)

Virgin Islands 96
£1,307 11s 9d
Awardee
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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
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Great Carrot Bay [ Virgin Islands | Tortola ]

Relationships (1)

Richard Beavor Wynne
Son → Father
Rev. Richard Wynne of Drumcliff
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This is an inferred relationship, based on the tentative identification by LBS of Rev. Richard Wynne the slave-owner in Tortola with Rev. Richard Wynne of Drumcliffe, known to be the father of...

Addresses (1)

The Hermitage, Sligo, Sligo, Ireland
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