Robert Grey Kirkland

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Biography

Co-owner of Devon Pen with William Pitt Kirkland and Philip Pearson Kirkland, probably his brothers. William Pitt Kirkland is known to have come from an American Loyalist family.

  1. Benjamin McMahon worked under Robert Grey Kirkland at Spring Garden Estate in the mid-1820s. Kirkland succeeded Mr. Gladwidge as the overseer of the estate. Benjamin McMahon described him as "a gentleman of considerable abilities, a clever planter, a strict disciplinarian, but judicious and humane in his treatment."

Sources

  1. Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) p. 77.

We are grateful to Siddharth Singh Ahlawat


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Associated Claims (1)

£29 3s 1d
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Associated Estates (11)

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
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
1829 [EA] - → Agent
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
1826 [EA] - → Other
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Other

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Relationships (2)

Business associates
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Co-owners of Devon Pen in St George Jamaica and very probably...
Business associates
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Co-owners of Devon Pen in St George Jamaica and very probably...