Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and trustee for James Grant, in which capacity he received two-thirds of the compensation for the enslaved on the Amsterdam estate in British Guiana (the other third went to Charles Grant).

1. Born 12/12/1776, son of Robert Tindal (solicitor) and Sally Pocock. Chelmsford school, matriculated Trinity Cambridge 1795, BA 1799. Lincolns Inn 1802, called to the bar 1809. MP for Wigtown Burghs 1824-6, Harwich 1826-7, the University of Cambridge 1827-1829. Solicitor General 1826. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1829-1846. Married Merelina Symonds 1809. Died 6 July 1846.

2. He is in the ODNB as a judge.

T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2382A.

In a letter from Porter & Nelson dated 16/11/1835 the firm informs the Commissioners somewhat ambiguously that Charles Grant had no interest in the two-thirds of the estate for which Tindal was trustee, 'which belong to the Chief Justice'. The letter went on to say that '[i]t is not necessary that we should trouble you with particulars of the Trusts declared by the will.' It seems most likely that Tindal was simply the trustee not the owner.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online].

2. J. A. Hamilton, ‘Tindal, Sir Nicholas Conyngham (1776–1846)’, rev. Hugh Mooney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27464 [accessed 07/08/2012].