1786 - 1849
Irish Catholic lawyer and administrator and 'backstairs viceroy of Ireland', who was awarded the compensation granted to Captain Alexander Ellice's for his 1/6th of the enslaved people on the Morant estate in St Thomas-in-the-East. It is not clear in what capacity Blake received the money: Ellice wrote to the Commissioners 21/11/1836 giving consent for the payment.
Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010) pp. 580-1; T71/867 St Thomas-in-the-East No. 507.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Legal Education
Lincolns Inn [1808 ]
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Occupation
Lawyer
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Religion
Roman Catholic
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£4,184 0s 1d
Awardee
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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:
'Anthony Richard Blake', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43577 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
