1748 - 1820
MP and London merchant and banker, making his fortune in India, but with James Law the recipient of a £15,000 Exchequer Loan in 1797 as part of the programme of support for the 'planters and merchants' of Grenada and St Vincent. In his will he indicated that his property could have been worth £230,000.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/bruce-patrick-craufurd-1748-1820 [accessed 15/09/2018]; will of Patrick Craufurd Bruce of Glenelg Inverness-shire proved 19/04/1820, PROB 11/1627/350; Museum of London in Docklands, Grenada Loans, 679 4 9 Loan No. 75b.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Father → Son
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Business partners
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Glenelg, Inverness-shire, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
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Upper Grosvenor Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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1789 - 14th Mar 1860
Possibly the first 'ethnic minority' MP to be elected (in 1832) to the House of Commons.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Patrick Craufurd Bruce', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660835 [accessed 12th November 2024].
