23rd Apr 1793 - 9th Jan 1840
Peter Langford Brooke of Mere Hall, Cheshire, brother of Thomas Langford Brooke (q.v.) and son of Thomas Langford Brooke (1769-1815). Peter Brooke of Mere, the brothers' grandfather, had married Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Jonas Langford of Antigua.
Matriculated Brasenose Oxford 19/01/1811 aged 17 s. Thomas Mere [sic] of Rosthern Cheshire. High Sheriff of Cheshire 1824.
Married Elizabeth Sophia Rowley, daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Bt. and Elizabeth King, on 1 July 1818. Married Julia Seymour Buccleuch Campbell, daughter of the late Col. Campbell of Shawfield, at Islay House, 02/11/1836.
T71/877 Antigua claim nos. 28 (Langford's), 105 (The Wood), 308 (Jonas) and 392 (Laroche's).
Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online].
For Brooke's first marriage see http://thepeerage.com/p31633.htm#i316329 [accessed 19/12/2011]; for his second marriage, see Gentleman's Magazine (1836), vol. 161 p. 561.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
(1) Elizabeth Sophia Rowley (2) Julia Seymour Buccleuch Campbell
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University
Oxford (Brasenone) [1811 ]
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£2,461 7s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£3,701 14s 4d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£1,935 13s 3d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
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£2,306 18s 3d
Awardee (Trustee)
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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:
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- 1817 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1840 [LA] → Owner
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Cultural (1) |
Paintings
Portrait of Peter Langford-Brooke (1793-1840) by James...
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Physical (2) |
Country house
Mere Old Hall
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Country house
Mere New Hall [Built]
description → Red brick 'Elizabethan' built to a design of Thomas Johnson of...
notes → Built c. 1834; the Old Hall was truncated in 1836 after remodelling in 1809-1815. Old Hall let to Manchester merchants in 19thC. Main block of New Hall burnt down 1975: building is now Mere Golf...
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Brothers
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Nephew → Uncle
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Son → Father
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Other relatives
Notes →
Great-grandfather and great-grandson. In his will proved in 1758 Jonas Langford had left his extensive slave-property in Antigua to his grandson, the son of his eldest daughter Elizabeth and her...
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Mere Old Hall, Mere, Cheshire, North-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:
'Peter Langford Brooke', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/40875 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
