John Blythe (died 1830s) was the owner of the

Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...

and Tweedside estates in

Westmoreland Parish Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the island. It is situated south of Hanover, southwest of Saint James, and northwest of Saint Elizabeth, in the county of Cornwall. The chief town and capital is ...

, Jamaica.John Blyth.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 12 January 2019. He was elected to the

House of Assembly of Jamaica The House of Assembly was the legislature of the British colony of Jamaica. It held its first meeting on 20 January 1664 at Spanish Town. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. p. 15. As a result of the Morant Ba ...

in 1820. Hakewill, James. (1825)
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821.
' London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13. His son with Mary, "a free woman of colour", was the chemist

John Buddle Blyth John Buddle Blyth (1814 – 24 December 1871) was a Jamaican-born chemist who was the first professor of chemistry at Queen's College Cork in Ireland. With August Wilhelm von Hofmann, he was the first to report photopolymerisation which they obs ...

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Members of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 1830s deaths Year of birth missing Jamaican landowners Westmoreland Parish {{Jamaica-politician-stub

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