Beeston Long senior

London West India merchant, partner in Drake & Long, father of Beeston Long jun., Sir Charles Long 1st Baron Farnborough, Jane Long, Samuel Long and Rev. William Long. This branch of the family appears to have had significant mercantile connections with the West Indies and the firm of Long, Drake & Long held estates and enslaved people as mortgagees-in-possession in the 1780s, but family members do not appear to have held estates or enslaved people directly outside the framework of the firm, other than Jane Long's inheritance of a life-interest in Norbrook and the enslaved people attached to it from her husband Charles Long of Saxmundham (q.v.).

1. Will of Beeston Long of London proved 28/01/1785. Among other provisions, he left £20,000 to his eldest son Samuel, and £16,000 each to five other children (Jane, Beeston, Susanna, William and Charles, to whom he left an additional £3,000 on the grounds that he had not advanced anything for Charles' establishment).

1. PROB 11/1125/323.