Benjamin Currey

Almost certainly the London solicitor and Clerk of the Parliaments Benjamin Currey, awarded £5000 from the compensation for the enslaved people on the estates of Lord Holland (Sweet River Pen & Friendship) in Westmoreland with another London lawyer James Leman (q.v.) probably as trustees for the Webster family.

1. The partnership of Benjamin Currey, Wilmer Wilmer and William Currey, of Old Palace Yard Westminster, Attorneys and Solicitors, was dissolved 28/5/1846 as far as concerns Wilmer Wilmer.  

2. Benjamin Currey died 13/3/1848 leaving under £5,000. His son Frederick Currey is in the DNB as 'mycologist.'

T71/871 Westmoreland nos. 27, 30 and 31, where he  appears as B. Curry.

1. London Gazette, Issue 20615, 19/06/1846, p. 2269.

2. National Probate Calendar 1865; B. D. Jackson, ‘Currey, Frederick (1819–1881)’, rev. Giles Hudson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), online edn, May 2008, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6952 [accessed 31/10/2012].