John Tarleton (1718–1773) was an English ship-owner and slave-trader, and
Mayor of Liverpool
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in 1764.
Tarleton was born in 1718 to Thomas Tarleton, who with his brother John had been involved with trading in West Indies and Africa.
Tarleton was the part-owner and manager of several ships engaged in the slave trade, the ''Tarleton'' and the ''Swan'' in the 1750s, and the ''John'' in the 1760s, mainly delivering slaves to Jamaica. At his death in 1773, Tarleton also owned slaves at the Belfield Estate in Dominica. Tarleton rose to become a prominent Liverpool merchant, and after becoming Mayor in 1764, was encouraged to stand for Parliament, but declined. Tarleton made significant investment in real estate in his last decade. He owned estates in
Carriacou
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and
Dominica
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as well as stores and houses at Grenada and Grand Ance, Carriacou. He also had several houses in Liverpool, Fairfield Estate near Buxton and tenements at Aigburth near Liverpool, and finally secured part of Aigburth Hall Estate – the old family house – about 1770. Aigburth Hall, located on Aigburth Hall Avenue, was demolished around 1840.
Tarleton married Jane Parker (1726–1797), daughter and coheir of
Banastre Parker
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of
Cuerden
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Banastre Tarleton
Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB (21 August 175415 January 1833) was a British general and politician. He is best known as the lieutenant colonel leading the British Legion at the end of the American Revolution. He later served in Portug ...
was a soldier and MP, Clayton and Thomas were slave traders.