Codrington, Christopher (1639/40–1698), planter, slave owner, and colonial official, was born in Barbados, the son of Christopher Codrington (d. 1656), a planter and land speculator in Barbados, and Frances Drax, the sister of the prominent planter Sir James Drax. Nothing is known of his wife, ...
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Codrington, Christopher (1639/40–1698), planter, slave owner, and colonial official
Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy
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Gibbs, Sir Humphrey Vicary (1902–1990), farmer and colonial administrator
Donal Lowry
Gibbs, Sir Humphrey Vicary (1902–1990), farmer and colonial administrator, was born on 22 November 1902 at 9 Portman Square, London, the third son and sixth and youngest child of Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, first Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon (1854–1935), merchant banker, and his wife, ...
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Moseley, Edward (1682–1749), public official and planter in America
William S. Powell
Moseley, Edward (1682–1749), public official and planter in America, was born of unnoted parentage, probably in London. There he received a splendid education at Christ's Hospital, a charity school for orphan boys founded in 1552 by Edward VI. Boys customarily finished school at the age of fifteen, and so in December 1697, having studied surveying, ...