1st Feb 1789 - 19th Nov 1878
Barrister. Only son of Sir Edward Hyde East (1764–1847) [q.v.], judge, and Jane Isabella, daughter of Joseph Chaplin Hankey of Old Hall, East Bergholt, Suffolk. Born in Bloomsbury, London. Educated at Harrow and Oxford. Called to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1834. His wife, Caroline Eliza (1794–1870), was the second daughter of James Henry Leigh and the Hon. Julia Twiselton Fiennes, daughter of Lord Saye and Sele. Succeeded his father as second baronet on 8 January 1847. Liberal Conservative MP, 1831-32, 1835-1864. Died at his home, Bourton House, near Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, 1878, leaving no heir.
Member of the committee of the Eyre Defence Fund in 1866.
Oxford DNB.
The Eyre Defence and Aid Fund (London, 1866), p. 4.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Caroline Eliza Leigh (1794–1870)
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School
Harrow
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University
Christ Church, Oxford [1810; MA 1824; DCL 13 June 1834 ]
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Legal Education
Inner Temple [Called to the Bar, 5 February 1813; bencher, 15 January 1856; reader,1869. ]
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Occupation
Lawyer and politician
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Religion
Anglican
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Oxford DNB Entry
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Physical (1) |
Country house
Bourton House [Purchased]
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Political (4) |
Local Government
office →
Deputy-Lieutenant
- office →
Justice of the Peace
- office →
Magistrate
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MP
Conservative
election →
Winchester Hampshire
1831 - 1832 election →
Winchester Hampshire
1835 - 1864 |
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Son → Father
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Grandson → Grandfather
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Bourton House, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir James Buller East', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/392548904 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
