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Charles Ashe A'Court Esq. 
MP
Tory 
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Heytesbury Wiltshire
1820
Sir William Abdy 7th Bart. 
MP
Tory 
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Malmesbury Wiltshire
1817 - 1818
Rear Admiral Sir Charles Adam 
Local Government
 
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Lord Lieutenant
1839 - 1853
 
MP
Whig-Liberal 
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Clackmannan and Kinross [pre-1832] Clackmannan and Kinross [pre-1832]
1831 - 1832
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Clackmannan and Kinross [1832- ] Clackmannan and Kinross [1832- ]
1832 - 1841
Edward Hamlin Adams 
Local Government
 
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High Sheriff
1831 - 1831
 
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Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire
1832 - 1834
Stephen Thurston Adey 
MP
Whig 
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Higham Ferrers Northamptonshire
1798 - 1801
Aretas Akers III 
Local Government
 
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Sir Archibald Alison 1st Bart. 
Local Government
 
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Sheriff
1834 -
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Income of £1400 a year from the post. According to the *OxfordDNB*, "Alison vigorously upheld the authority of the state", especially against trade unions and Chartism. He pursued very repressive...
Alexander Allardyce 
MP
 
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Aberdeen Burghs Aberdeenshire / Forfar / Kincardine
1792 - 1801
Jefferys Allen 
MP
Pittite Tory / West India interest 
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Bridgwater Somerset
1796 - 1804
Rowland Alston 
MP
Whig 
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Hertfordshire Hertfordshire
1835 - 1841
William Alves 
Local Government
 
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Deputy-Lieutenant
1823 -
John Proctor Anderdon 
Local Government
 
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Deputy-Lieutenant
28 June 1820 -
Sir George Anson 
MP
Whig 
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Lichfield Staffordshire
1806 - 1841
Thomas William Anson 1st Earl of Lichfield 
MP
 
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Great Yarmouth Norfolk
1818
Sir Edmund Antrobus 2nd Bart. 
MP
Conservative then Liberal 
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Surrey Eastern Surrey
1841 - 1847
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Wilton Wiltshire
1855 - 1877
Andrew Arcedeckne 
MP
Whig / West India interest 
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Dunwich Suffolk
1826 - 1831
Chaloner Arcedeckne 
MP
 
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Wallingford Berkshire
1780 - 1784
Solomon Ashley 
MP
 
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Bridport Dorset
1734 - 1741
Sir Willoughby Aston 5th Bart. 
MP
 
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Nottingham Nottinghamshire
1754 - 1761
Alderman John Atkins 
MP
Tory 
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Arundel Sussex
1802 - 1806
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London London
1812 - 1818
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Arundel Sussex
1826 - 1832
Alderman Richard Atkinson 
MP
 
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New Romney Kent
1784 - 1785
Sir John Aubrey bart. 
Government
 
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Lord of Admiralty Admiralty
1782 - 1783
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Lord of Treasury Treasury
1783 - 1789
 
MP
Whig 
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Wallingford Berkshire
1768 - 1774
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Aylesbury Buckinghamshire
1774 - 1780
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Wallingford Berkshire
1780 - 1784
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Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire
1784 - 1790
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Clitheroe Lancashire
1790 - 1796
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Aldeburgh Suffolk
1796 - 1812
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Steyning Sussex
1812 - 1820
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Horsham Sussex (West)
1820 - 1826
Anthony Bacon 
MP
 
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Aylesbury Buckinghamshire
1764 - 1784
James Evan Baillie 
MP
Whig 
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Tralee Kerry
1813 - 1818
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Slavery in the West Indies
House of Commons 20/12/1830
Spoke in support of petition for abolition of slavery presented by Richard Davis, also a Bristol MP: ' . . .  the principle of compensation should be admitted...
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Bristol Somerset
1830 - 1835
 
Urban Politics
 
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Brooks's Club Member
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Thorne, House of Commons 1790-1820, vol....

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People of Interest

Eliza Down Williams (née Griffith)

28th Mar 1802 - 6th May 1874

Daughter of a wealthy planter and wife of the rector of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bigamous convicted forger.

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Documents of Interest

Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819

The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.

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