Hon. Robert Monckton

English soldier and MP. He was granted 4000 acres on St Vincent that he sold in 1775 to a syndicate comprised of William and Robert Gemmell, Henry and Duncan Davidson and James Baillie the elder for £31,750. The extent of his slave-owning if any is not yet known to LBS.

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/monckton-hon-robert-1726-82; Deed Book 1785, British Library, EAP688/1/1/1, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-1, pp. 159-162 and pp. 162-178. William Gemmell was party to a deed of 24/05/1785 under which he - given as late of Lime Street but then of Marylebone and as executor of Robert Gemmell - leased for 1 year land known as Lot No. 4 in the Monckton Quarter of St Vincent to Duncan Campbell of St Vincent. The indenture was the prelude to a further deed of the following day to be entered into with James Baillie and the Davidson firm of London that set out the background including the 1775 purchase from Monckton.