Robert Stronach

Attorney and slave-owner in Grenada, Speaker of the Assembly in 1848. Listed as proprietor of Grand Ance, Morne Delice, Mount Harman and Mount Moritz estates in St George, Grenada, in the 1832 Slave Registers, although he was not mentioned in conjunction with the same estates in the compensation records. It appears likely that he was attorney and possibly renter of the enslaved people on these estates, which the compensation records show belonged to William Stuart and were mortgaged to Glasgow merchants. In 1837, however, Robert Stronach and the heirs of George Cruikshank, there identified as the proprietors of Grand Ance, petitioned the Privy Council to overturn an order in the Grenadan courts reclassifying six enslaved people as non-praedial (and therefore to be freed on 01/08/1838). These six people were possibly the six for whom Robert Stronach was awarded compensation under Grenada Nos. 280 and 501 (the latter with George Cruikshank).

Dietrichsen and Hannay's royal almanack for the year 1848; T71/318 pp. 365-366; Edmund F. Moore (ed.) Report of Cases heard and determined...by...HM'sMost Honourable Privy Council (1837-8) Vol. II p. 311.