UCL

Arthur Hodge

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1811

Biography

Slave-owner on Tortola, the first European man to be executed for the murder of an enslaved person. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'planter in the West Indies and murderer.' 'About 1792 he inherited the Belle Vue estate in Tortola.' There is an image of him (as Arthur William Hodge) in the National Portrait Gallery.


Sources

G. P. Moriarty, ‘Hodge, Arthur (d. 1811)’, rev. Christopher Fyfe, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13419, accessed 29 Oct 2016]; NPG D9372, Arthur William Hodge, 'Plantation and slave owner in the British Virgin Islands', which gives life-dates of 1763-1811.

Further Information

Spouse
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Associated Estates (1)

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
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Belle Vue [ Virgin Islands | Tortola ]