Rev. Rowland Duer senior

Eldest son and heir of Major John Duer of Duers in Antigua and Fulham, Middlesex, England (c. 1697-1764), and his second wife Frances, daughter of Col. John Frye of Antigua (c. 1713-1787), and also heir-at law of his brother Samuel of Dominica. Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln, in 1788 owner of Great Duers of 400 acres, then of Chichester in Sussex; died at Bath, England, 08/06/1791. Mentioned in his children's counterclaim for Big Duers in Antigua as tenant-for-life of Big Duers which was inherited by his eldest son Rowland Duer junior (q.v.).

There is a floor slab to Rev. Rowland Duer in the nave of Chichester Cathedral, dated 1791.

T71/887 Antigua claim no. 343 (Big Duers).

Vere Langford Oliver, The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. 2 pp. 217-223, 'Pedigree of Duer'.

Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].

'Chichester cathedral: The nave', A History of the County of Sussex: Vol. 3 (1935), pp. 135-146 available at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41670 [accessed 14/08/2013].