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Nedham, William Dandy, 1730-1811
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Dates of existence
1730-1811
History
NEDHAM, WILLIAM DANDY, son of Hampson Nedham, Mount Olive, Jamaica, barrister, and Martha, dau. of John Dubber, Witney, Oxfordshire; b. 23 Sep 1730; adm. Jun 1746 (Preston's); left 1748; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1748, aged 17; adm. Inner Temple 3 Aug 1748; Speaker, House of Assembly, Jamaica 1766; m. 1st, 4 Jun 1760 Mary, widow of Vere Hicks, Jamaica, and dau. of John Morant, Brockenhurst, Hampshire; m. 2nd, 7 Apr 1769 Eleanor, dau. of Archibald Aikenhead, Stirling Castle, Jamaica; d. 1811.
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Believed to have been the owner of the Mount Olive Estate 1772-1811. 1787 and 1807 records show 'hire of enslaved people', 1809 record shows presence of 236 enslaved people.
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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/2146650561
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.