As Liverpool MP spoke in the interests of the merchants and shipowners of the City: e.g. On the Merchant Shipping Bill (1853: HC Deb 15 July 1853 vol 129 cc275-91) on the China Trade, (HC Deb 27 March 1855 vol 137 cc1243-7).
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Derby Derbyshire1852 - 1853
Elected 1852 but election declared void, March 1853. Horsfall then became MP for Liverpool. |
Liverpool Lancashire1853 - 1868
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Customs Duties (Sugar) Bill House of Commons 02/06/1854
Supported the government on the Sugar Duties question (reduction and equalization of duties) |
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Riots in Demerara — Question House of Commons 06/06/1856
Concerned with the recent riots in Demerara: asked that copies of Governor Wodehouse's Despatches on the subject be laid on the table of the House. Labouchere, Secretary of State for the Colonies, agreed to this. Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (1811–1887) was governor of British Guiana (1854-1858): his policies of 'stabilizing' the economy the cause in part of two serious riots, which were put down forcefully. |
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.
