Sir John Boyd 1st Bart.

Profile & Legacies Summary

1718 - 1800

Biography

London merchant and East India Co. director, slave-owner on St Kitts, where his estates must have included Boyd's as well as Fountain: only the latter is specified in his will. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'merchant.'

Will of Sir John Boyd of Danson, Kent [made in 1797] proved 05/02/1800. Under the will he left an annuity of £1200 p.a. to his wife Dame Catherine Boyd, secured on his [unnamed] estates on St Kitts except Fountain, which he had settled on his son John on his [the son's] marriage: he provided that if his St Kitts estates could not support the annuity, then it would be funded out of other estates left to his son John, except Danson House. He left £10,000 each to his three daughters Lucy, Sarah and Catherine, not payable while Britain was at war but only five years afterwards; and an annuity of £400 p.a. to his son James.

Sources

Hancock, David. 2008 "Boyd, Sir John, first baronet (1718–1800), merchant." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 4 Jul. 2019. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-49745.

PROB 11/1336/206

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

(1) Mary Bamstead (2) Catherine Chapone

Children

With (1) John; James, Lucy, Sarah, Catherine

Oxford DNB Entry

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Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1800 [EY] → Owner

Boyd's estate [ St Kitts | Trinity Palmetto Point ]

Inferred by LBS to have been owned by the 1st Bart.: it was certainly owned by the 2nd Bart.

- 1784 [EY] → Owner

Fountain [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Danson House [Built]

Details

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Grade I Palladian villa built 1765/1766 by Sir John Boyd for his second wife Catherine Chapone. Restored and re-opened 2005. Recently transferred from the Bexley Heritage Trust to the London Borough...