Thomas Hughan

London West India merchant, slave trader and MP who had been resident in Kingston Jamaica for ten years in the 1790s. MP for East Retford 1806-1807 and Dundalk 1808-1811. His posthumous son also Thomas Hughan of Airds left £40,000 in 1879.

1. Will of Thomas Hughan of City of London [and of North End Hampstead] proved 20/01/1812. In the will he mandated that his wife's annuity be secured first from his funds. He then left £3000 for a natural daughter Jane Hughan and £2000 for a natural daughter Margaret Hughan, £5000 to his sister and £1000 to John Murray, son of David Murray of Hornby House, with the remainder of his estate passing 'as the law directs.' Although he had made a will in Jamaica, there is no evidence of property in people in his English will.

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hughan-thomas-1760-1811; National Probate Calendar 1879. There is genealogical material on Thomas Hughan and his family at http://hughankirkcudbright.blogspot.co.uk [accessed 08/05/2017]. The TASTDB shows him as owner or co-owner in 21 voyages in the period 1799-1807.

1. PROB 11/1529/259.