John Glasgow Grant

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Cane Wood as owner.

1. Son of Francis Bell Grant and speaker of the House of Assembly in Barbados. In London during the slave compensation process, and died of 99 The Grove, Ealing in 1893 leaving £531 7s 6d.

2. Susanna Charlotte Duke sold Cane Wood to John Glasgow Grant 1833 for £5,000 and Grant agreed to clear all debts. The appraised value of the estate (and presumably the enslaved people on it) was £3887.

Barbados no. 472. There is an extended account of his activities on Barbados in 'William Grant of Barbados and some of his Descendants, from JBMHS Vol. IIII (1935) pp. 30-40', reproduced in Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados Families pp. 252-262.

1. Times 15/11/1879 p 1 [obituary of his sister Lucy Glasgow Grant]; T71/1593 p.120 24/2/1836 letter to John Grant Esq 27 Great Russell st. Bedford Square on Barbados nos. 258, 533, 4071, 4566 and 5191 Barbados re status; T71/1611 petition to counterclaim from John Glasgow Grant London Street 28 Fitzroy Square as agent of persons residing in Barbados, including Barbados nos. 258 and 4071B; National Probate Calendar 1894.

2. Kathleen Mary Butler, Economics of Emancipation' p. 103.