The Beckford family was an aristocratic English family in Jamaica. [1] They were known for their involvement in the slave trade and owning plantations in the West Indies in the 17th century. [2]
The Beckford family was an aristocratic English family in Jamaica. [1] They were known for their involvement in the slave trade and owning plantations in the West Indies in the 17th century. [2]
Sir William Beckford was a Jamaican-born planter and Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769. One of the best known political figures in Georgian era London, his vast wealth derived from the sugar plantations and hundreds of slaves he owned in the British colony of Jamaica. In Britain, Beckford was a supporter of the Whig party, including Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. He also publicly supported progressive causes and frequently championed the London public.
William Thomas Beckford was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner.
Robert Graham, who took the name Bontine in 1770 and Cunninghame Graham in 1796, was a Scottish politician and poet. He is now remembered for a poem If doughty deeds my lady please, which was later set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and also by his great-great-grandson, Rev. Malise Cunninghame Graham.
Baron Rivers was a title that was created four times in British history, twice in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Peter Beckford was a Jamaican-born planter, politician and merchant who served as speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica from 1707 to 1713, and again in 1716. The son of one of the richest men in the colony of Jamaica, Beckford sat in the House of Assembly of Jamaica for three decades and acquired a vast financial estate. His wealth would go on to support the political careers of his children in Great Britain.
James Dawkins was a Jamaican-born politician, antiquarian and planter.
Sir Peter Beckford was a British writer, planter, art collector and politician who was the patron of classical composer and pianist Muzio Clementi. A prominent member in the English fox hunting community, he owned a pack of hunting dogs and wrote the work Thoughts upon Hunting (1781) which served as a guide to the practise.
Gattonside is a small village in the Scottish Borders. It is located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Melrose, on the north side of the River Tweed. In 1143, the lands of Gattonside were granted to the monks of Melrose Abbey by King David I.
George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers, known as George Beckford until 1828, was a British peer and politician. He held a place as a Lord-in-waiting in several governments, migrating from the Tory to the Liberal Party over the course of his career. He commanded the Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry for a decade. His four sons all suffered from a lung disease, and only the youngest briefly survived him to inherit the barony.
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hale Rigby was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1779 to 1784.
George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, of Penrhyn Castle, Caernarvonshire, and 56 Portland Place, Middlesex, was a plantation and slave owner, Member of Parliament for Newark and New Romney.
William Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers, known as Horace Beckford until 1828, was an English peer and gambler.
Henry Dawkins II was a Jamaican plantation and slave owner and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (MP).
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham, formerly Elizabeth Beckford, was the wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and the mother of both Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, and Richard Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.
William Dickinson (1771–1837) was an English politician, in parliament from 1796 to 1831.
Vale Royal is the official residence of the prime minister of Jamaica. It is located on Montrose Road in Kingston 10, Jamaica.
The Stapleton Baronetcy, of the Leeward Islands, is an extinct title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1679 for William Stapleton, who followed Charles II into exile in France, and after the Restoration was appointed deputy-governor of Montserrat and captain-general of the Leeward Islands.
William Mitchell (1742–1823) was a British planter, attorney and official in Jamaica, where he was known as "King Mitchell" for his many interests in plantations. He was also a Member of Parliament at Westminster, and West India Interest activist.
Richard Beckford was an English Whig politician.
Robert Nedham was a British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for the rotten borough of Old Sarum from 1734 to 1741.
 | This English biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |