Cranstoun, James Edmund, ca. 1784-1818

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Cranstoun, James Edmund, ca. 1784-1818

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ca. 1784-1818

History

CRANSTOUN, JAMES EDMUND, 9TH BARON CRANSTOUN (S), son of Hon. Charles Cranstoun, Creeling Castle, Midlothian, and Elizabeth Turner, Worcestershire, and nephew of Hon. George Cranstoun (qv); b.; succ. his uncle James as 9th Baron Cranstoun (S) 22 Sep 1796; at school 1796; in school lists 1797, 1801; played cricket against Eton at Lords’ 31 Jul 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1802, aged 18; m. 25 Aug 1807 Anne Linnington, eldest dau. of John Macnamara, St. Kitts, West Indies; d. at St. Kitts 5 Sep 1818.

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Inherited property in St Kitts. A record of 293 enslaved people on the Cranstoun estate in 1817 exists.

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GB-2014-WSA-05504

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GB 2014

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, September 2020

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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645421

Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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