1756 - 1824
MP for Mitchell and then Dysart Burghs between 1802 and 1806. He and his family were beneficiaries under the will of William Gemmell (q.v.), his wife's uncle, from whom as one of four residuary heirs he inherited £12,000 in trust as well as one-quarter of an unnamed estate on Grenada that the compensation records strongly suggest was Mount Craven.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/dallas-robert-1756-1824. The entry gives his wife Justina as the daughter of Henry Davidson of Tulloch and Bedford Square, but in fact she was the daughter of Duncan Davidson senior (q.v.) and sister of Henry Davidson the elder of Tulloch.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
(1) Charlotte Jardine (2) Justina Davidson
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Children
Robert William
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Political (1) |
MP
election →
Mitchell Cornwall
1802 - 1805 election →
Dysart Burghs Fife
1805 - 1806 |
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Brothers
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Father → Son
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
Notes →
Robert Dallas (as he then was) married Justina Davidson, daughter of Duncan Davidson senior in 1802, as his second...
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Legatee → Testator
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir Robert Dallas', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658365 [accessed 19th April 2024].
