Dates of tenure as MP are assumed to be dates of start to dissolution of Parliament of Sept. 1796 - June 1802.
Returned for Hindon on the Calthorpe interest. (William Beckford ignored the pleas of Lewis’s uncle, Robert Sewell (also a West India proprietor), for his interest at Hindon.)
Supported Pitt but admired Fox and according to his friend Lord Holland, he ‘supported the minister and the French war [but] He inculcated in his writings opinions which led to a directly opposite conclusion’. Cited in Thorne.
Played little part in Parliament.
Thorne, House of Commons, 1790-1820, vol. IV.
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Hindon Wiltshire1796 - 1802
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1788 - 1876
Irish merchant, slave-owner and philanthropist.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
