UCL

Thomas Higson

Profile & Legacies Summary

1772 - 1836

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, Kingston merchant, curator of the Botanical Garden at Bath, and dying aged 63 years 10 months 21/12/1836. His wife, given as Delafitte in his Memorial Inscription, appears to have been the same woman as Mary Eliz. Justine Higson (nee Delafitte) (q.v.).


Sources

Monumental Inscriptions Kingston Parish Churchyard, No. 338.

Further Information

Spouse
Delafitte

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St George 194
£226 17s 10d
Awardee
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Associated Estates (12)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1829 [EA] - → Overseer
Bath of St Thomas the Apostle [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Trustee
Cool Shade [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
Cool Shade [ Jamaica | Port Royal ]
1820 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Eccleston [ Jamaica | St David ]
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Greenwich Hill [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Lessee
Lovely Grove [ Jamaica | St George ]
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Lovely Grove [ Jamaica | St George ]
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
Tremolesworth Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Lessee
Trinity [ Jamaica | Manchester ]
1823 [EA] - → Other
Unknown [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

Previously receiver of this group of people in Port Royal.

1820 [EA] - → Guardian
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
urban (Kingston) [ Jamaica | Kingston ]

Relationships (2)

Thomas Higson
Husband → Wife
Delafitte Higson
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Thomas Higson
Husband → Wife
Mary Eliz Justine Higson (née Delafitte)
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