Vere Langford Oliver | |
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| Born | 1861 |
| Died | 1942 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Genealogist |
Vere Langford Oliver MRCS FSA (1861 [2] - 1942 [3] ) was a British surgeon and genealogist. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
His major work was his Caribbeana published in six volumes between 1909 and 1919. [4]
Events from the year 1729 in Canada.
Colonel Daniel Parke Jr. was an American military officer, planter, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the Leeward Islands from 1706 until 1710, when he was lynched by a mob in Antigua. Best known for his military service in Europe under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession, Parke was the only governor in British America to be murdered.
Colonel Peter Beckford (1643–1710) was acting Governor of Jamaica in 1702. He was also a prominent slave owner, plantation owner, and businessman in early British Jamaica. By the time he died, he had accumulated 20 estates, 1,200 slaves and had founded what Noel Deerr described as "perhaps the greatest fortune ever made in planting."
Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill was a British army officer and politician. He was the second son of George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Susan Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway.
Edward Thomas Daniell was an English artist known for his etchings and the landscape paintings he made during an expedition to the Middle East, including Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey. He is associated with the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists connected by location and personal and professional relationships, who were mainly inspired by the Norfolk countryside.
HMS Scorpion was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by John King at Dover and launched in 1803. She was the first of the class to be built since the launching of Cruizer in 1797. Scorpion had a long and active career during the Napoleonic Wars, earning her crews three clasps to the Naval General Service Medal when the Admiralty authorized it in 1847, two for single-ship actions. She also took a number of prizes. Scorpion was sold in 1819.
John Kemys George Thomas Spencer-Churchill was an administrator in the British colonial service serving as Governor of Montserrat and Commissioner of St Kitts and Nevis.
Colonel Mitford Crowe was an English diplomat, merchant, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the Parliament of England from 1701 to 1702 and served as the governor of Barbados from 1707 to 1710. He is best known for his career during the War of the Spanish Succession, where Crowe negotiated the Pact of Genoa with the Principality of Catalonia, which brought them into the Grand Alliance.
The Rev. John Collinson was an English cleric, antiquarian and county historian. He is best known for his three-volume history of Somerset which he published at the age of 34, two years before his death, and which earned him the title of "the Somerset historian".
The chief justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands.
The Chief Justice of Grenada is the head of the Supreme Court of Grenada which consists of the High Court with three justices and a two-tier Court of Appeal.
The title Count of Champlitte was created by letters patent on 5 September 1574 by Philip II, King of Spain, for Francois de Vergy, son of Guillaume de Vergy the Seigneur de Champlitte.
James Tobin (1736/7–1817) was a prominent merchant and planter based in Nevis. During his life, he became one of the most prominent proslavery activists from the West Indies.
James Laing (c.1749–1831) was a Scottish doctor and slave plantation owner in Dominica.
James Dawkins was an English landowner and politician.
John Bird, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1737.
Lucy Chester Parke was a British colonial subject of Antigua who inherited the Gambles Plantation from her father. She gained note as an infant because of her illegitimacy, but was bequeathed an estate in Antigua, which she operated until her death. She spent over thirty years litigating his bequest with the American side of her father's family.
Fulke Rose was a British physician and early colonist of Jamaica. He was one of the principal buyers in Jamaica of slaves taken by the Royal African Company and had extensive land-holdings on the island. He continued to practice medicine in Jamaica and with Hans Sloane attended the former privateer Henry Morgan towards the end of Morgan's life.
Bird, Savage & Bird, was a firm of London merchants transacting business with North America from about 1782. Manufactured goods were exported to America in exchange for semi-tropical crops, grown in locations such as South Carolina. Later Bird, Savage & Bird became the banking agents in Britain for the U.S. Government. In 1802 the American ambassador to Britain, Rufus King, instructed them to make a routine payment, but they were reluctant to fully comply. This led King to express his concern that their "affairs may not be altogether free of embarrassment", and in early 1803 his fears were realised when the House of Bird, Savage & Bird failed, leaving the United States as major creditors. To replace them, the U.S. Government appointed merchant bankers Francis Baring & Co.
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