James Woodhouse

London West India broker, bankrupt with his partner Mark Woodhouse in 1819, when the assignees were to complete the sale of 'certain slaves in the island of Jamaica' pursuant to an earlier equity case against James Woodhouse. Woodhouse was defendant in the suit of [David] Watt (q.v.) v Woodhouse (1817), which might be the case referred to. James and Mark Woodhouse were presumably two of the unnamed five children referred to in the will of Mark Woodhouse, sugar broker of Cross Lane St Dunstan's Hill, whose will proved 28/01/1790 indicated significant wealth, including £10,000 in trust for his wife.

London Gazette 17468 13 April 1819 p. 665. The bankruptcy records - not yet consulted by LBS - are at TNA, B 3/5234; C 13/536/88. Woodhouse was also plaintiff in an 1811 suit that involves several defendants connected with slavery or Jamaica, C 13/136/84; PROB 11/1187/301.