Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5.
Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of his wife’s first husband in 1800, Holland found himself the reluctant, but effectual proprietor of the Vassall plantations in Jamaica." He claimed to abhor slavery, but apparently not enough to free the slaves as soon as they came into his ownership.
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Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
Yet anonther lazy London statue - see Peabody for our log of all the seated s...
Administrator in India and South Africa. An enlightened 19th century administrator, who nonetheless caused the Zulu Wars by giving Cetshwayo, the Zulu king, an unacceptable ultimatum.
Henry Watts Wilkinson Goudge was born on 3 June 1852 the fourth of the six children of Alexander Goudge (1818-1879) and Clarinda Goudge née Inman (1822-1893). His birth was registered in the 2nd qu...
Partner in Heal & Son, 1905, then a Managing Director. No issue.
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905.
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