1748 - 1824
Partner, brother-in-law and cousin of Charles Alexander (q.v.). He was a merchant of London in 1771, when he was party with Charles Alexander and their partner William Colcraft to a deed creating annuities on the estate of William Byam of St Vincent, and later resident on St Vincent, but no estate has yet been identified with him. He owned 14 enslaved people in 1817 and 12 in 1822 (when the Slave Register showed he had purchased Frank a labourer aged 14 from John Dalzell).
T71/493 p. 620, and T71/493 p. 393, both under Herbert P. Cox.
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Absentee?
West Indian?
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Commercial (1) |
Name partner
Alexander, Colcraft and Cox
West India merchant? |
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Business partners
Notes →
The two men were also 'cousins', according to the will of Charles Alexander: they were certainly...
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Son-in-law → Father-in-law
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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Father-in-law → Son-in-law
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Father → Son
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1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
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:
'Herbert Palmer Cox', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658849 [accessed 16th April 2024].
