???? - 27th Aug 1862
Liverpool merchant, long-term partner of John Gladstone having joined him as a clerk in 1805. George Grant died in 1862, leaving £25,000.
Geo. Grant appears as partner of Robertson Gladstone et al., in Calcutta commission merchants Gladstone, Hay, Wyllie and Co. George Grant retired from another partnership with Archibald Kelso and Robertson Gladstone trading at Liverpool as Gladstone & Company 1st May 1856.
Advertisement for creditors of George Grant of Gambier Terrace Liverpool who died 27/08/1862, executors Sir Thomas Gladstone, Robertson Gladstone and Archibald Kelso.
S.G. Checkland, The Gladstones: a family biography p. 45; National Probate Calendar 1862.
London Gazette, Issue 20608, 26/05/1846, p. 1958, retirement of Andrew Hay; London Gazette, Issue 21882, 09/05/1856, p. 1737.
London Gazette, Issue 22725, 10/04/1863, p. 1989.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Wealth at death
£25,000
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£21,011 2s 7d
Awardee (Mortgagee)
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Commercial (9) |
Railway Investment
Edinburgh and Northern (No. 1) [184558]
£2500
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Railway Investment
Birmingham and Oxford Junction [184629]
£4000
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Railway Investment
Edinburgh and Northern (No. 2) [184559]
£5000
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Railway Investment
Shrewsburt, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction (Coalbrookdale Branch) [1846461]
£2000
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Railway Investment
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction [1845172]
£2800
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Name partner
Gladstone, Grant & Wilson
General overseas merchant |
Railway Investment
London and York [1845119]
£25000
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Railway Investment
Cheltenham, Oxford, and London and Birmingham Union; or Charlton Kings and Marsworth [183732]
£2000
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Other partner
Gladstone, Hay, Wyllie & Company
East India merchant |
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7 Gambier Terrace, Liverpool, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
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:
'George Grant', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/41818 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
