Walter Tullideph

Antiguan slave-owner, father of Charlotte Tullideph and father-in-law of Sir John Ogilvy of Inverquharity 5th bart and grandfather of Sir William Ogilvy 8th bart. In Antigua from about 1726 until he became a 'semi-permanent absentee' after 1757, purchasing an estate in Fyffeshire for £10,000.

1. Baptised in Dunbarney, near Perth, Scotland, 13/12/1702, son of the parish minister. Studied at Edinburgh High School. Apprenticed to a local surgeon. Moved to Antigua in 1726 where he already had family connections. Flourished as an estate manager and planter. Bought the Scottish estate of Baldovan for £10,000 before 1757.

2. Owner of New Division (containing lands formerly Tremills and Devereux's and the lands bought from Mr Wm York and Capt. Samuel Martin) and Musketto [sic] Cove which in 1794 Tullideph had agreed to sell to Mr Morris of Antigua for £18,000. After providing for his wife and a handful of monetary legacies he left his estate to his daughter Dame Charlotte Ogilvy for life and then to Walter Ogilvy, son of Charlotte.

R.B. Sheridan ‘The rise of a colonial gentry: a case study of Antigua 1730-1775’ Economic History Review NS 13.3 (1961) pp. 342-357 at pp. 350-351; Richard B. Sheridan, 'Letters from a sugar plantation in Antigua, 1739-1758', Agricultural History, Vol. 31, No. 3 (July, 1957), pp. 3-23.

1. GROS OPR Births 347 10 175 Dunbarney; Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776 (2015) pp. 105-110.

2. Summary of the will of Walter Tullideph of Tullydeph Hall Co. Forfar and formerly of Antigua, dated at Edinburgh 28/05/1794, in Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. III p. 156.

We are grateful to James Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.