- ↑ Nicholas Draper (2014). "Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society". Legacies of British Slave-Ownership Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 9781107040052.
Slave-ownership permeated every tier of the elites, not only the aristocracy and gentry but also the more economically active sections. Among absentee slave owners whose occupations are known, 'merchant' is by some distance the most common occupational classification, and as always hides as much as it discloses beyond registering an activity broadly in commerce (i.e. a business not involving manufacture or transformation of raw materials). The second most frequent classification is 'lawyer' (whether solicitor, barrister or attorney), often attached to men (and members of the professions at the time were all men) who were awarded compensation as agents rather than principals – as trustees and executors of the underlying beneficiaries of slave compensation. Judges, by definition senior lawyers, also figure in the compensation records, either as slave owners and beneficiaries of compensation themselves, including Sir Edward Hyde East, Sir James Scarlett (Lord Abinger) and the chancellor of Ireland, Sir Anthony Hart (all born into slave-owning families in the Caribbean), or as representatives of slave-owners, such as Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, who was awarded two-thirds of the compensation for the Amsterdam estate in British Guiana as the trustee of a slave-owner called James Grant.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Barker 1891.
- ↑ James Roderick O'Flanagan, The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of ..., ii, ch. lx
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Barker, George Fisher Russell (1891). "Hart, Anthony". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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