Sir Gilbert Heathcote

Profile & Legacies Summary

1652 - 1733

Biography

London merchant and colonial trader with significant involvement in early trade with Jamaica, where at least two of his brothers were based. He appears not to have owned land or enslaved people there, and reportedly his brothers sold their own such interests on their return to Britain.

Sources

Nuala Zahedieh, 'An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall', in Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.) Slavery and the British Country House pp. 69-77.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Married but no further details

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Normanton Hall [Built]

Details

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Built by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, who had purchased the Normanton estate in 1729 at the age of 79. The house was demolished in...

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Nuala Zahedieh, 'An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall', in Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann (eds.) Slavery and the British...