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Fuller, Charles Beckford, 1739-1825

  • GB-2014-WSA-07541
  • Person
  • 1739-1825

FULLER, CHARLES BECKFORD, brother of Henry Fuller (qv); b. 1739; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1747 (Hawkins'); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 May 1758, matr. Mich. 1758; adm. Inner Temple 8 Sep 1755, called to bar 5 Feb 1767/8, left Feb 1774; d. 2 Mar 1825.

Fuller, Henry, 1724-1773

  • GB-2014-WSA-07545
  • Person
  • 1724-1773

FULLER, HENRY, eldest son of Thomas Fuller, Jamaica, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Price, Worthy Hall, St. John’s, Jamaica; b. 27 Feb 1724 in St Catherine, Jamaica; adm. May 1739 (Watts'); left 1743; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1743, aged 18; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Apr 1745; of St. Dorothy, Jamaica; d. c. 1773.

Fuller, Peeke, ca. 1732-1798

  • GB-2014-WSA-07547
  • Person
  • ca. 1732-1798

FULLER, PEEKE, brother of Henry Fuller (qv); b.; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1746 (Hawkins'); left 1747; member of Assembly, Jamaica (representing St. John’s), 1790; m. Caroline, dau. of Hon. Felton Hervey MP; d. in Jamaica 20 Jan 1798.

Galloway, James, 1801-1874

  • GB-2014-WSA-07610
  • Person
  • 1801-1874

GALLOWAY, JAMES, son of James Galloway, Jamaica, West Indies; b. 4 Oct 1801; adm. 23 Sep 1815 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1818; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Mar 1818; BA 1821; MA 1824; ordained deacon and priest 1826; Rector of Spaxton, Somerset, from 1846; m. 2 Jun 1827 Margaret Bridget Goodrich, third dau. of George Shedden, Paulerspury Park, Northants; d. 9 Oct 1874.

Gordon, Charles, ca. 1784-1839

  • GB-2014-WSA-08000
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  • ca. 1784-1839

GORDON, CHARLES, son of Charles Gordon, Braco, Jamaica, and Berkhamstead House, Herts., and Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas Howorth, Worcester; b.; in school list 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1802, aged 18; of Newtimber Place, Sussex; m. 28 Jul 1827 Anne Sarah, third dau. of James Pitman, Dunchideock, Devon; d. 28 Apr 1839.

Harman, Samuel, 1788-1841

  • GB-2014-WSA-08712
  • Person
  • 1788-1841

HARMAN, SAMUEL, only son of Samuel Harman, Antigua, Chief Commissioner of Army Accounts, West Indies, and Mary Anne, dau. of James Athill, London; b. Antigua 5 Aug 1788; at school under Vincent; at Winchester Coll. 1804-8; Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Martinique; Master in Chancery and Chief Baron of the Exchequer [there ?]; m. St. Michael, Barbados, 28 Nov 1816 Dorothy Bruce, dau. of William Murray, HM Customs, Barbados; d. at Philadelphia, USA 8 Mar 1841. [But see Harman, Samuel, 1787-?: was this Samuel Harman really a OW ?]

Harriott, William, ca. 1768-1822

  • GB-2014-WSA-08736
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  • ca. 1768-1822

HARRIOTT, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Harriott, St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, West Indies; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1784; left Dec 1785; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1786, did not matr.; migr. to Exeter Coll. Oxford, gent. commoner 4 Nov 1788 – 15 Jun 1789, matr. 3 Nov 1788, aged 20; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 May 1785; lived at Metz, France; m. [note will William Harriott, South Stoneham, Hampshire, proved PCC 16 Apr 1822] [perhaps m. at St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Jul 1789 Ann Pither (IGI)]

Hay, Edward, 1722-1779

  • GB-2014-WSA-08938
  • Person
  • 1722-1779

HAY, HON. EDWARD, brother of Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 14 Jun 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Oct 1730; left 1735; HBM Consul, Cadiz 1752; HBM Consul-General, Lisbon 1754; Envoy Extraordinary, Lisbon Jul 1757-62, Minister Plenipotentiary 1762 – Aug 1767; Governor of Barbados from 1772; m. 1st, 1752 Mary, dau. of Peter Flower, Alderman, City of London; m. 2nd, 24 Jan 1779 Mary Harbourne Barnwell; d. in Barbados 21 Oct 1779.

Hughes, John Cumberland, 1767-1833

  • GB-2014-WSA-09711
  • Person
  • 1767-1833

HUGHES, JOHN CUMBERLAND, brother of William Hughes (qv); b. 31 Mar 1767; adm. 27 Mar 1775; left 1779; entered Royal Navy as powder monkey on board HMS Victory 7 Jun 1779; when serving on HMS Rover was captured by a French frigade and taken into Grenada Sep 1780, but exchanged at Martinique three months later; Midshipman 14 Feb 1781; ADC to Capt. Lord Cranstoun on HMS Formidable during action against French on 12 Apr 1782; retd. from Navy 1783; plantation management in Grenada with his elder brother George Hughes (qv) from 1785; m. May 1805 Elizabeth, elder dau. of George Edward Stanley, Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland; d. at Bath 5 Feb 1833.

Hume, James Deacon, 1774-1842

  • GB-2014-WSA-09733
  • Person
  • 1774-1842

HUME, JAMES DEACON, younger son of James Hume, Secretary of the Customs, and Elizabeth Capps; nephew of Nathaniel Hume (qv); b. 28 Apr 1774; adm. 13 Jan 1783; was victorious in a “mill’ with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv), “who, though the bigger boy of the two, was not so good a gladiator” (Badham, Life of J. D. Hume, 1859, 9); left 1791; Indoor clerk, Custom House 1791; rose to position Controller of the Customs; drafted Consolidated Customs Acts which received royal assent Jul 1825; Joint Secretary, Board of Trade 15 Jul 1829 – 4 Jan 1840; one of founders of Political Economy Club; a founder and Deputy Chairman, Atlas Assurance Company; a convinced Free Trader; author, Thoughts on the Corn Laws, 1815, and other works; m. 4 Jun 1799 Frances Elizabeth, widow of Charles Ashwell, Grenada, West Indies, and dau. of Edward Whitehouse, Customs House, Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to George III; d. 12 Jan 1842. DNB.

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