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List Of Speakers Of The House Of Assembly Of Jamaica
This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. 17th century * 1664. Robert Freeman * 1664. Sir Thomas Whetstone * 1671. Samuel Long * 1672-73. Major John Colebeck (''pro tem''.) * 1673. Samuel Long * 1677. Lieut.-Col. William Beeston * 1679-88. Samuel Bernard * 1688. George Nedham (''pro tem''.) * 1688. Roger Hope Elletson * 1688. Thomas Rives * 1688. John Peeke * 1691-92. Thomas Sutton * 1693. Andrew Langley * 1694. James Bradshaw * 1698. Thomas Sutton 18th century * 1701, Andrew Langley * 1702. Francis Rose * 1702-03. Andrew Langley * 1704. Edward Stanton * 1705. Matthew Gregory * 1706. Hugh Totterdale * 1706. John Peeke * 1706. Matthew Gregory * 1707-11. Peter Beckford (junior) * 1711. William Brodrick * 1711. Samuel Vassall (''pro tem''.) * 1711-13. Peter Beckford Jnr. * 1714. Hugh Totterdale * 1715. John Blair * 1716. Peter Beckf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nedham (Jamaica)
William Nedham was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1718, 1722, and 1733. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. See also * List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. 17th century * 1664. Robert Freeman * 1664. Sir Thomas Whetstone * 1671. Samuel ... References External links Year of birth missing Year of death missing Speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 17th-century Jamaican people 18th-century Jamaican politicians {{Jamaica-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jordon
Edward Jordon (1800-1869), or Edward Jordan, was a leading campaigner for equal rights for free people of color in Jamaica during the nineteenth century. Background Edward was born in the Colony of Jamaica on 6 December 1800, the son of a white man from Barbados with the same name, and a Jamaican black woman named Grace. Jordon found employment as a clerk in the firm of James Brydon, a Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston merchant, who later terminated Jordon's service because he objected to the free coloured's growing participation in the campaign for equal rights for Jamaica's free people of colour. Jordon wrote in reply, "I regret to learn that my political sentiments should, in your opinion, render a separation necessary." Campaigner for equal rights In 1823, the free coloureds of Jamaica presented a petition to the Jamaican Assembly asking for restrictions placed upon them to be lifted, and that free people of colour be allowed to testify in a court of law. However, the Assembly rej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keane Osborne
Kean Osborn was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1798. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. See also * List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. 17th century * 1664. Robert Freeman * 1664. Sir Thomas Whetstone * 1671. Samuel ... References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 18th-century Jamaican people {{Jamaica-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Williams Haughton
Samuel Williams Haughton (1738–1793) was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica from 1778 to 1793. He was a slave-owner and the owner of the Orange Cove Estate and the Unity plantation in Hanover Parish, Jamaica. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 13 May 2019. See also *References Further reading * "Hawtayne" aughton '' |
Jasper Hall
Jasper Hall (died 1778) was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1778. He was also the Receiver General of Jamaica and the owner of the Hectors River plantation. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 13 May 2019. See also *List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica
This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii.
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Nicholas Bourke
Nicholas Bourke was an Anglo-Irish planter in Jamaica who emigrated to the island around 1740 and acquired significant land-holdings there. He was prominent in the House of Assembly of Jamaica from the later 1750s and speaker in 1770. Bourke argued in favour of the rights of Assemblymen of Jamaica during a dispute with the governor, William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, over who should finance the defence of the colony. Eventually, Bourke won his argument that the British government should bear the cost of defence, and Lyttelton was recalled.Christer Petley, ''White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 101-2. He is thought to have been the author of a pamphlet, ''The Privileges of the Island of Jamaica Vindicated'', that was published in Kingston in 1765 and in London in 1766."Liberty and Slavery: The Transfer of British Liberty to the West Indies, 1627-1865" by Jack P. Greene in See also * List of speakers of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Pinnock
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Long (colonial Administrator)
Edward Long (23 August 1734 – 13 March 1813) was a British-born planter, historian and writer best known for writing a book about the history of Jamaica in 1774 which was heavily rooted in proslavery thought. Early life Long was the fourth son of Samuel Long (1700–1757) of Longville, Jamaica, son of Charles Long (1679-1723), Charles Long MP, and his wife Mary Tate, born 23 August 1734 at St. Blazey, in Cornwall. His great-grandfather, Samuel Long, had arrived on the island in 1655 as a lieutenant in the English army of conquest, and the family established itself as part of the island's governing planter elite. His sister, Catherine Maria Long, married Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet (Governor of Jamaica), and Long, in Jamaica from 1757, became his private secretary. In 1752 Long became a law student at Gray's Inn, and from 1757 until 1769 he was resident in Jamaica. During this period he explored inside the Riverhead Cave, the Green Grotto Caves, Runaway Bay Caves and the Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fearon
Thomas Fearon was Chief Justice of Jamaica Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the boa ... from 1756 to 1764. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix. References Chief justices of Jamaica Year of birth missing Year of death missing 18th-century Jamaican judges {{Jamaica-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hibbert
Thomas Hibbert (1710–1780) was an English merchant and plantation owner who became a prominent figure in colonial Jamaica. Life Thomas was the son of Robert Hibbert (1684–1762) and his wife Margaret Tetlow Mills. Born into a family owning cotton mills which supplied barter goods to businesses in the slave-trade, Thomas was the first of the Hibbert family to settle in Jamaica, arriving in 1734. His youngest brother, John (1732–1769), also lived in Jamaica, from 1754 until his death; his other brother, Robert, was father of Thomas, a co-founder of the family trading business Hibbert, Purrier and Horton, and of George, merchant and pro-slavery campaigner. His original remit was to redeem the bonds of slave traders at the point at which they sold their slaves in Kingston. In 1754, he completed work on building Hibbert House which won a competition as the finest house in Kingston. In 1756 he was the speaker of the Jamaican House of Assembly. Rather than marrying, Thomas c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Manning (Jamaica)
Edward Manning (died 1756) was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1755. He died on 6 December 1756. See also * List of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica This is a list of speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica (1664-1865). Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xvi-xviii. 17th century * 1664. Robert Freeman * 1664. Sir Thomas Whetstone * 1671. Samuel ... References Year of birth missing 1756 deaths Speakers of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 18th-century Jamaican politicians {{Jamaica-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
