Robert Grey Kirkland

Co-owner of Devon Pen with William Pitt Kirkland and Philip Pearson Kirkland, probably his brothers. William Pitt Kirkland is known to have come from an American Loyalist family.

1. Benjamin McMahon worked under Robert Grey Kirkland at Spring Garden Estate in the mid-1820s. Kirkland succeeded Mr. Gladwidge as the overseer of the estate. Benjamin McMahon described him as "a gentleman of considerable abilities, a clever planter, a strict disciplinarian, but judicious and humane in his treatment."

1. Benjamin McMahon, Jamaica Plantership: Eighteen Years Employed in the Planting Line in that Island (1839) p. 77.

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