Nassau William Senior

Political economist. Son-in-law, co-trustee and co-executor of John Mair of Clifton (q.v.). Nassau William Senior's wife Mary Charlotte inherited one-third of the estate of John Mair of Clifton, including mortgages over enslaved people. He was also trustee or agent for the widow of Laurence Nihell (q.v.) for the El Dorado estate in Trinidad.

His published writing included Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836).

Phyllis Deane, ‘Senior, Nassau William (1790–1864)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25090, accessed 8 June 2017]; Selwyn Cudjoe, I will rise again: the story of William Hardin Burnley, English-American slave-owner in Trinidad, 1780-1850 (forthcoming), which shows correspondence between Senior and Burnley concerning the estate in the Apprenticeship period.