Dr Alexander Lumsden

Resident slave-owner of Grenada, administration of whose will was granted 29/01/1839. Under his will he made a series of monetary legacies of £50-100 to individuals in Grenada, left £1200 in trust for his cousins the Restons [?] in Aberdeen, and left a further £3000 in trust for the benefit of a group of four individuals including Alexander Lumsden jun., with the principal then passing to the latter's children when the last of them reached 21. Identified in other sources as a doctor. Born Aberdeen 1750, died Grenada 12/05/1838.

PROB 11/1905. 'Reference to the plan of the Island of Grenada by Gavin Smith showing the names of all the different estates; the proprietors' names (corrected up to 1824); the species of produce made; and the quantity of land belonging to each' (London, 1882) p. 7. David Dobson, Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857 (Baltimore, Maryland, 2006) vol. 1 p. 84.