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Boyd Alexander 
East India Company
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Son of Claud Alexander of Southbar, who became paymaster-general in East India...
William Maxwell Alexander 
East India Company
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Son of Claud Alexander of Southbar, who became paymaster-general in East India...
Rev. Henry Allen 
East India Company
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Chaplain at Cuddalore, Madras. Allen died at Cuddalore in January 1829, 'much regretted by the European and the native Christian community. A tablet was put up to his memory in the old mission...
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Frank Penny, The church in Madras : being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the presidency of Madras Vol. Ii (1912) pp....
Haynes Gibbes Alleyne 
Health Officer
Australia: New South Wales 
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Australia: New South Wales 
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Trustee of the Australian Museum...
 
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Australia: New South Wales 
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Honorary physician to the Sydney...
Joanna Alleyne (née Bishop) 
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Australia: New South Wales 
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Her son Haynes Gibbes Alleyne (born 14/10/1813) who became health officer in Port Jackson, New South Wales, in 1852 and was an influential figure in medical circles in the...
Robert Allwood 
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Australia 
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His eldest daughter Anne Rocke (1810-1859) married Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811–1878) and emigrated to Australia in 1839. Francis was an eminent civil servant and composer in the 1850s and 60s....
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Rev. Robert Allwood 
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Australia: New South Wales 
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Sydney clergyman...
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1. K. J. Cable, 'Allwood, Robert (1803–1891)' in the Australian Dictionary of National Biography online, <a...
Mather Byles Almon 
Director
Bank of Nova Scotia Canada: Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island 
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Canada: Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island 
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Supporter of Protestant charities in Nova...
 
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Canada: Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island 
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Governor of Dalhousie University, 1842-1848; Governor of Kings College, Windsor, 1854-1868 and...
William Bruce Almon 
Other
Canada: Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island 
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Physician. Used his various medical positions and political clout to improve the standard of medical treatment in Nova Scotia, particularly that of the...
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Colin D. Howell, Entry for William Bruce Almon in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: <a...
 
Member of the legislative council
Canada: Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island 
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George Fife Angas 
Member of the legislative council
Australia: South Australia 
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Australia: South Australia 
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Contributed to many religious, educational and benevolent institutions. "At the end he was said to be giving away £10,000 a...
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'Angas, George Fife (1789–1879)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, <a...
 
Chairman
South Australian Company Australia: South Australia 
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John Ashley of Clifton and Ashley Hall 
Surgeon
Australia: New South Wales 
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John Ashley, the grandson of John Ashley of Ashley Hall and son of Rev. John Ashley, has an entry in the Australian Medical Pioneers Index,...
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http://www.medicalpioneers.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?detail=1&id=1094 [accessed 31/03/2017]....
John Samuel August 
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Australia 
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Shortly after his death, John Samuel August's widow and children emigrated to Australia. His son George Hornby August moved to New Zealand in 1855. See biographical entry for more...
James Bain 
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India 
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James Bain's son Alexander Bain, a barrister, died in Madras age 31,...
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Email from Daphne Phillips Diafas, 25/04/2013, sourced to Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 37 1852 and Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society Vols. 20-21. Also from Daphne...
 
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South Africa: Orange Free State 
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1. James Bain's son Andrew Hudson Bain arrived in Cape Town on 1 July 1840. Although this was meant only to be a temporary stay, with Ceylon [Sri Lanka] apparently being his destination, he remained...
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1. Email from Karel Schoeman, sourced to Andrew Hudson Bain's letter book 1840 - 1845 (A29.1), Free State Archive Repository, Bloemfontein. 2. Email from Daphne Phillips Diafas, sourced to <a...
Sir Thomas Baring 2nd Bart. 
East India Company
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Writer for the East India Co., and working in India,...
Henry Barkly 
Governor
Jamaica 
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Governor
Mauritius 
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Governor
Cape of Good Hope 
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Governor
British Guiana 
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Governor
Australia: Victoria 
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High Commissioner
South Africa 
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Hannah Barnes 
Other
Canada 
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Grandmother of Sir William Trutch (q.v.) who spent part of his childhood living with her in...
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Robin Fisher 'Trutch, Sir Joseph William, engineer, surveyor, politician and office holder' in Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, <a...
Simon Barrow 
 
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Simon Barrow's son Samuel served as a Police Magistrate in Van Diemen's Land 1842-1846 and a Stipendiary Magistrate on Norfolk Island in 1846, and by 1853 was Inspector-General of Penal...
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http://www.barrow-lousada.org/samuel%20barrow.htm [accessed...
Thomas Reynolds Bartrum 
East India Company
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"East India merchant" in the census of 1851 but his relation to the East India Company is not...
Sir Francis Souper Bayley 
Recorder
Penang 
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Rev. William Henry Ricketts Bayley 
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Penang 
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The Malvern estate was inherited by William H. R. Bayley from Sir Francis Souper Bayley who died in Penang, where he was Recorder, in 1824 age...
Evelyn Bazalgette 
East India Company
 
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His father Louis Bazalgette invested in the East Indies but his relation with the East India Company is...
John Belisario 
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Australia: New South Wales 
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Pioneered the use of anaesthetics in Australia. Member of numerous cultural organisations in Britain, America and Australia (see cultural...
Hon. George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley 
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Grantley Berkeley was related to the colonial administrator Sir George Berkeley (1819-1905): born Barbados and descended from a branch of the family of the earls of Berkeley; his mother was Elizabeth...
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Chewton Atchley, ‘Berkeley, Sir George (1819–1905)’, rev. Lynn Milne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), <a...
Henrietta Sophia Berkeley 
East India Company
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Her father was a banker in the East Indies and then a government loan contractor although his exact relation to the East India Company is...
Thomas James Bernard of Bernards Lodge 
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Canada 
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Susan Agnes Bernard (1836-1920), the daughter of Thomas James Bernard of Bernard's Lodge, became Lady MacDonald and then a Baroness in her own right after the death of her husband Sir John A....
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George Robert Boehm Berney senior 
East India Company
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An East India Company Civil servant, in India...
 
Other
New Zealand 
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His son George Robert Boehm Berney junior (q.v.) was an early settler in New...
James Samuel Berridge 
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Father-in-law to colonial administrator Sir James Robert Longden...
John Rycroft Best 
East India Company
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His son, of the same name, died in Calcutta 23 December 1829 aged 29. He had been judge of Jessore, India. In an LBS blog, Chris Jeppesen notes that the younger John Rycroft Best "obtained a...
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[Chris Jeppesen, 'East meets...
Alexander Bizzett 
East India Company
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His son William Waddel Bizzett became a surgeon in the HEIC. He died in service in 1856, aged 24 (see biog...
Charles Bosanquet 
Governor
Canadian Land Company Canada 
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Sir John Bernard Bosanquet 
East India Company
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Appointed standing counsel to the East India Company in...
RIchard Bosanquet 
East India Company
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Director of the East India...
James Bovell 
Canada 
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Charles E. Dolman, 'James Bovell' in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, <a...
Robert Bowen the younger 
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Malta 
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Died in Malta in 1874 although no more is known about his activities...
Robert Bright 
Australia: Victoria 
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Son Charles Edward Bright was a civil servant in Victoria. Another son Reginald was "of Melbourne,...
 
East India Company
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Son Arthur was a Lieutenant and Anjunct in the 22nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry and died during the Indian Mutiny of...

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People of Interest

Rev. William Marshall Harte

25th Nov 1776 - 1851

Resident clergyman, proponant of religious instruction for enslaved people.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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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