1773 - 1840
Lord Holland, awarded part of the compensation under three awards for the enslaved people on his estates in Jamaica, which had come to him through his wife, Elizabeth Webster (née Vassall).
T71/871 Westmoreland claim nos. 27, 30 and 31. Claim by Lord and Lady Holland owners. Counterclaim by George Capron, on behalf of Sir Godfrey Webster Bart. 'Vested estate tail in one third part expectant on decease of Lady Holland'; V.E. Chancellor (1980) Slave‐owner and anti‐slaver: Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Lord Holland, 1800–1840, Slavery & Abolition, 1:3, 263-275, DOI: 10.1080/01440398008574816
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Elizabeth Webster (nee Vassall)
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School
Loughborough House Schoo then Eton College
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Oxford DNB Entry
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£7,211 13s 9d
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£0 s d
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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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1800 [EA] - 1840 [LA] → Owner
He came to own the property through his marriage to Elizabeth Vassall. |
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1810 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Joint owner
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Cultural (6) |
Prints, Drawings & Paintings
Charles Robert Leslie, engraved by John William Cook. Portrait of Henry Richard Vassall Holland, 3rd Baron....
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection:...
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Prints, Drawings & Paintings
Print, whole-length portrait of Henry Richard Fox, mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after John Raphael Smith,...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings...
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Prints, Drawings & Paintings
Satirical print by John Doyle, The United Cabinet or the Blind Leading the Blind, 1832. Depicts the Prime Minister, Earl Grey, leading his Cabinet of Whig ministers into a chasm inscribed...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings &...
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Prints, Drawings & Paintings
'Van Amburgh. Outdone!'. Satirical cartoon by John Doyle (1797-1868) showing Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) as the American animal trainer Isaac Van Amburgh (1808-1865) taming the Whig cabinet. Print...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings &...
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Print entitled The Pigs Possessed: - or - the Broad bottom'd Litter running headlong into ye Sea of Perdition. Published in London by Hannah Humphrey on 18th April 1807, Harry Beard...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings &...
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V & A: Prints, Drawings & Paintings
John Preston Neale, engraved by William Woolnoth. Holland House, Middlesex. Published London,...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: Prints, Drawings &...
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Second Husband → Wife
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Other relatives
Notes →
In effect, Holland and Seaford were brothers-in-law: Seaford had been brought up with Elizabeth Vassall, whose second marriage in 1797 was to the 3rd Lord...
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Holland House, Holland Park, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Winterslow House, Winterslow, Wiltshire, Wessex, England
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
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.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/46368 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
