WILLETT, RALPH, elder son of Henry Willett, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Elizabeth, elder dau. of Col. John Stanley, Nevis, West Indies; b. 8 Aug 1719; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1732/3; left 1734; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Jun 1736, aged 17; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jan 1738/9; inherited large West Indian estates on death of his father in 1749; of Merly, Dorset; High Sheriff, Dorset 1760; FSA 5 Dec 1763; FRS 21 Jun 1764; a collector of early printed books, specimens of block printing, prints, pictures and botanical drawings; author of three papers in Archaeologia; m. 1st, 9 Dec 1779 (IGI) Annabella Robinson; m. 2nd, 15 May 1786 Charlotte, widow of Samuel Strutt, Assistant Clerk, House of Lords, and dau. of --- Locke, Clerkenwell; d. 13 Jan 1795. DNB.
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- UF Slave Trade