£1m claimed by Irish slave-owners for 30,000 slaves on 300 West Indian plantations in 1837
In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park it becomes clear in the early chapters that the Bertram family fortune, and the money that built the eponymous estate, has come from the proceeds of a West Indian plantation which employs slave labour. Shortly into the novel Sir Thomas Bertram is compelled to sail for Antigua to sort out problems on his plantation. Was it a rebellion? Was it a consequence of the abolition of the trading of slaves in the British Empire in 1807? We never find out – when the heroine Fanny Price inquires she is greeted with a long disapproving silence and knows better than to pursue the subject.
But the fictional Bertrams were not the only British family to have prospered from the ownership of slaves, the recent removal for cleaning of the statue of Bristol slave trader, Edward Colston, has highlighted that unsavoury fact.
But not all ‘British’ slave owners were English. We can leave the Scots and the Welsh to assess their particular legacy, but Ireland has its own unhappy heritage when it comes to the acquisition, possession and sale of human beings for the purposes of unpaid labour – and I’m not talking about Google interns.
Prompted by Patrick Corrigan’s fascinating thread on Twitter earlier in the week (@PatrickCorrigan), which highlighted Irish ownership of slaves on West Indian plantations, I decided to spend a few days going through the invaluable University College, London ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership’ database—compiled since 2010 by Professor Catherine Hall and Dr. Nick Draper,[1] and cited by Patrick as his source—with a fine(ish) toothcomb. I wanted to try and tease out the extent of Irish slave-holding at the time of the final elimination of the practice in British colonies with the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. So, you could describe what follows below as a ‘database within a database’.
Altogether around 800,000 slaves were emancipated (or ‘manumitted’ to use the legal phrase) although this came with certain strings attached. Most were forced to serve four year ‘apprencticeships’ with their former masters. They were obliged to work in return for food. Which, you might think, sounds quite a lot like slavery. And you’d be right.
A total of £20m was set aside by the British government for compensation. Most of this, £15m, was borrowed from the bankers Nathan Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore. This was all paid back in jig time – 2015!. That sum is worth £1.4b (€1.6b) today. You might think £20m wouldn’t make much of a dent in the ill-usage of 800,000 freed slaves. In which case you would be incredibly naïve and know absolutely nothing about British colonialism. The £20m wasn’t intended for the slaves, it was meant for the 47,000 hard-done-by slave-owners, deprived of their rich heritage as well as their mobile (and negotiable) property. Half of the money was paid out in the West Indies and the rest went to absentee plantation owners living in the United Kingdom (like the fictional Bertrams). So, the final score in the British War on Slavery was …
Slave Owning Bastards (SOBs) 20,000,000 Slaves 0
One of the biggest beneficiaries was John Gladstone, who was paid £106,769 for 2,508 slaves across nine plantations. The name might ring a bell. His little boy, William, went on to become Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1894. Though the Grand Old Man’s Old Man was well in arrears of the leading Irish beneficiary, Charles McGarel of Larne (a local benefactor on a Colstonian scale) who received £135,078 for 2,777 liberated slaves. McGarel was an ancestor of Tory grandee Lord Hailsham aka Quinton McGarel Hogg. And William Ewart Gladstone was not the only British Prime Minister who was a descendant of a recipient of slave owner compensation. Take a bow David Cameron.[2]
Back in the 1830s the United Kingdom included Ireland, so 4% of the moolah was handed over to Irish slave-holders. Given that the population of Ireland at the time was c. 7.5m—or around 45% of the total population of the UK—this figure probably reflects the microscopic size of the Irish landed gentry (c. 10,000 privileged families) and its upper middle class (bankers, merchants and middlemen).
The headline figures are stark. Almost £1m (£982,009) was claimed by individuals born in, or resident in, Ireland under the terms of the 1837 Slave Compensation Act. Almost £800,000 (£798,639) was paid out to these solid citizens by the British government. The one-hundred and fifty-one Irish slave owners whose names appear in the UCL database in the 1830s, laid claim to more than 300 plantations (318) and to almost 30,000 male and female slaves (29,686). Claims totalling around £200,000 (£183,370) were dismissed by the Slave Compensation Commission appointed by the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne. These failed Irish claims, however, have been included anyway. This is on the basis that those who submitted them were either convinced of the merits of their cases, were happy to associate themselves with the evil of slavery and sought to profit from it, or were out and out chancers who deserve a bit of retrospective opprobrium. A number of unsuccessful claimants looked for compensation for slaves on plantations that had been mortgaged. Cheeky or what? They discovered to their chagrin that the compensation had already been paid to the mortgagee. In many cases ownership of plantations was disputed and the compensation was paid to counter claimants.
Some of the beneficiaries are from well-known Irish aristocratic families, but not all Irish-owned West Indian plantations were the property of Ascendancy Protestant families. While there is a healthy sprinkling of grandees there are also many common or garden Dalys, Barrys and Murrays on the list. Many were upper middle class ‘merchant Princes’ and lawyers from Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Galway. There were also twenty-one female slave owners out of 151 names who sought financial awards. Most of those were the widows or the legatees of Irish male slave owners. There are a number of clergymen and MPs on the list as well.
I have no doubt there are errors and gaps. I have searched the UCL site as thoroughly as I could over the last four days, trying to identify families and individuals who owned slaves and who were compensated when slavery was formally abolished throughout the British Empire between 1 August 1834 and 1 February 1835. The UCL database includes many more Irish names, of men and women who owned plantations in the West Indies as far back as the 1600s. According to Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914)—widely accepted as the foremost Irish authority on all matters relating to this country’s relationship with slavery (including the mythology of alleged Irish ‘white slaves’ which has been weaponised by American white supremacists)—Irish slave-owning families on Antigua alone included names like Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Collins, Corbett, Curtin, Doyle, Halloran, Keane, Kelly, Lynch, Malone. McCarthy, O’Brien, O’Connor, O’Loughlin, O’Shaughnessy, Ryan and Shiell.[3]Some of these families may even have brought their slaves to Ireland in the latter half of the eighteenth century, when the black population of the country was reckoned at somewhere between 2-3,000.[4] They may also have among the poor traumatised plantation owners who sought compensation from the Treasury in 1737 for the loss of a number of Antiguan slaves. The fact that the Antiguan plantation owners had themselves been directly responsible for their pecuniary losses did not appear to prevent them seeking awards from the British exchequer. A foiled slave revolt led to the public execution of eighty-five slaves. According to Liam Hogan:
‘ Six were gibbeted alive. Five were broken on the wheel. Seventy-seven were burned alive. Most of the victims’ remains were decapitated and their severed heads placed on pikes in public view as a warning to the rest of the slave population. The final executions involved the burning alive of eleven enslaved people on 8 March 1737.’[5]
That rebellion was eclipsed by another almost a century later, when 540 ‘mobile assets’ were killed or executed in an 1831 uprising that hastened the end of the practice of slavery in the British Caribbean territories.
The 151 names recorded below are of those involved only in that final act, the drawn-out ending of slavery (except in certain territories belonging to the notorious East India Company, an institution apparently impervious to any form of remedial legislation). The connection with Ireland of some of those noted below may have been somewhat tenuous at the time of the passage of ‘An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves.’ – to give the legislation its full title. However, you will forgive me, I hope, if I don’t apologise to those (long-dead) slave owners who might have been included as Irish in error.
Among the prominent Irish individuals who benefitted from the generosity of the Melbourne administration, and the cash provided by Rothschild and Montefiore, was the Most Honourable Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Altamont and Baron Monteagle. He had fewer plantations to his name than titles, owning ‘Cocoa Walk’ and ‘Kellys’ near Kingston in Jamaica. The 286 slaves of which he was cruelly deprived were assessed by the Slave Compensation Commission as being worth £5526, or a modest £19 each. (Awards varied greatly, with many owners being paid £50+ per slave). The 2nd Marquis appears to have been one of more decent sorts of slave driver. He became Governor of Jamaica in 1834 and did not endear himself to fellow slaveowners on the island with some of the decisions he made during the transition. He didn’t, for example, require his own former slaves to become apprentices, as would have been his right under the 1833 legislation. Choleric Jamaican slaveowners were able to force his resignation in 1836.
Also featuring prominently on the list is the name La Touche, one associated in Dublin with banking and, specifically, with the Bank of Ireland. The family was descended from Huguenot refugees and a participant in the Battle of the Boyne (on the Williamite side). Three members, William Digges La Touche, Peter Digges La Touche and Mary Digges La Touche divided £7100 between them for 404 slaves on three Jamaican estates.
An equally famous name included on the list is that of Pakenham. Hercules Robert Pakenham, third son of the 2nd Baron Longford, and brother in law of that reluctant Irishman, the Duke of Wellington, had an Antiguan plantation of 217 slaves, whose freedom netted him £2919. He was a MP for Westmeath from 1808-1826.
Another interesting inclusion is that of Edward Sheil, who had two small plantations in Honduras (he is the only Irish owner of Central American properties). The main point of interest here is that Edward Sheil, who was awarded £1243 by the Commission, was the brother of Richard Lalor Sheil MP, a parliamentary supporter of Catholic Emancipation and an associate of Daniel O’Connell, the most egregious and vociferous Irish opponent of slavery.
The case of William Purcell is particularly interesting. He was born in Grenada around the turn of the 18thcentury and in 1833 was in possession of a small Grenada plantation inherited from his Irish father Patrick Joseph Purcell. He is described by the UCL researchers as:
‘One of six “coloured” sons of Irish-born landowner Patrick Joseph Purcell and his ‘housekeeper’ whom he described as “free negro woman Franchine”. His grandfather, Joseph Purcell, was sent to the West Indies by his great-grandfather Redmund Purcell of Dunane, County Laois, Ireland. Redmund sent 5 of his 6 sons away as it was not possible to find careers for them at home …’
One imagines that this was how many of the male planters from Ireland and Britain found their way to the Caribbean, through the tyranny of primogeniture, which meant they had little or no chance of inheriting family property in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Once in the West Indies they were free to exercise a tyranny of their own. Many of those, however, who benefitted from a big payday probably never even saw their Caribbean estates. Many of the beneficiaries died in Britain, some died in Ireland. Others, like Hamilton Brown (see below) who owned twenty-five plantations in Jamaica, continued to live in the West Indies, where he died in 1845.
So here is the best list I can come up with. Imperfect and error-strewn I’m sure, and open to correction if anyone else wants to have a go here (http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) or here (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/slavery-or-slave-owners/) and God bless all who sail in you if you do decide to have a go. (Someone will now tell me that there are at least half a dozen PhD’s already extant on the subject and that I needn’t have wasted my time. If so, great. Such is life.)
Have a good look at the names. Some of them probably never bothered to hide the fact that they were goblins at heart. Others were likely to have bestowed considerable largesse among their local communities and white-washed (or lime-washed) their reputations—like the recently moistened Mr. Colston—and gained reputations as do-gooders. Who knows, there might even be statues to some of them. So, we could spend the next twenty years arguing about the addition of wording to their plinths that reflects the totality of their activities. Or not.
BACKGROUND ARTICLES:
LIAM HOGAN:
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-slaveowners-compensation-1587899-Jul2014/
WATERFORD TREASURES
NINI ROGERS
| NAME | CITY/COUNTY | AWARD Italics = unsucc.Claim | SLAVES |
| John Adair (Trinidad – 2) | Dublin | £2131 | 41 |
| William Jones Armstrong (British Guiana – 1) | Armagh | £225 | 4 |
| Mehetabel Austin (née Piercy) (British Guiana – 1) | Ireland | £19514 | 369 |
| George Bagot (British Guiana – 1) | Carlow / Kildare | £13,823 | 261 |
| William Barron (Barbados – 3)(St. Lucia – 1) | Waterford | £3954 £10,298 | 157 462 |
| Thomas Barry (British Guiana – 3 | Ireland | £172 £12375 | 4 229 |
| Colthurst Bateman (Jamaica – 2) | Kerry | £5042 | 270 |
| Espine Batty (male) Fitzherbert Batty (Jamaica -2) | Dublin Delvin, Co. Westmeath | £4892 | 258 |
| James Bedlow (Jamaica – 1) | Carlow, Co. Carlow | £3135 | 161 |
| Lawrence Bellew (Tobago -1) | Mount Bellew, Co. Galway | £2742 | 148 |
| John de la Poer Beresford (St. Vincent – 1) | Waterford | £148 | 6 |
| George Robert Berney (Barbados – 1) | Kingstown, Co. Dublin | £1803 | 126 |
| James Blair (British Guiana – 1) | Co. Down | £83530 | 1598 |
| Anthony Richard Blake (Jamaica – 1) | Ireland | £4184 | 240 |
| Cecilia Blake (St. Vincent – 1) | Dublin | £5052 | 188 |
| Captain Vaughan Brice (Jamaica – 1) | Westport, Co. Mayo | £1359 | 74 |
| Henry Daniel Brooke (Trinidad – 1) | Dublin | £4808 | 99 |
| Alexander Scott Broomfield (Trinidad – 1) | Hollywood, Co. Wicklow | £2410 | 45 |
| Hamilton Brown (Jamaica – 25) | Antrim | £4675 £19,470 | 233 886 |
| John Browne (St. Kitts – 1) | Dublin | £2067 | 125 |
| Howe Peter Browne (Marquis of Sligo – Earl of Altamont) (Jamaica – 2) | Westport, Co. Mayo | £5526 | 286 |
| Eleanor Brumskile (née Brereton) (British Guiana – 1) | Bray, Co. Wicklow | £9256 | 188 |
| Hyacinth George Burke (male) (Jamaica – 1) | Killimer, Co. Galway | £700 | 43 |
| John Burke (Jamaica – 1) | Tuam, Co. Galway | £61 | 2 |
| Robert Burke (Jamaica – 1) | Dublin | £2240 | 104 |
| Sarah Busby (née Welch) (Jamaica – 1) | Dublin | £1637 | 84 |
| Robert Bushe (St. Vincent – 1) (Trinidad – 5) | Dublin | £3004 | 127 |
| Jane Carr (née Owens) (Antigua – 1) | Cobh, Co. Cork | £1740 | 127 |
| Robert Chaloner (Barbados – 2) | Wicklow | £6363 | 283 |
| John Chambers (St. Vincent – 1) | Letterkenny, Co. Donegal | £6525 | 257 |
| Henry Barry Coddington (Jamaica – 1) | Oldbridge, Co. Meath | £4532 | 235 |
| William Cramsie (Jamaica – 2) | Portrush, Co. Antrim | £997 | 46 |
| Catherine Crokes (Tobago – 1) | Clogher, Co. Tyrone | £330 | 15 |
| John Cunningham (Antigua – 2) | Belfast | £3073 | 198 |
| Peter Daly (Jamaica – 1) | Ahascragh, Co. Galway | £2318 | 113 |
| Christopher Daly (Jamaica – 1) | Ireland | £1328 | 61 |
| Andrew Bredin Delap (Jamaica – 1) | Ramelton, Co. Donegal | £807 | 37 |
| William Drummond Delap (Jamaica – 2) | Collon, Co. Louth | £1933 | 96 |
| Peter Dumoulin (Trinidad – 2) | Dublin | £1978 | 46 |
| Robert Ellice (Grenada – 1) | Dublin | £1683 | 58 |
| David Elliot (St. Kitts – 1) | Dublin | £1242 | 76 |
| Lyndon Howard Evelyn (Jamaica – 1) | Ireland | £259 | 11 |
| William Fennell (Jamaica – 1) | Cork | £591 | 27 |
| Lawrence Fitzgerald (British Guiana – 3) | Fane Valley, Co. Louth | £14,535 | 275 |
| John Flowers (Jamaica – 2) | Bandon, Co. Cork | £335 | 13 |
| William Forsyth (British Guiana – 1) | Belfast | £14,689 | 272 |
| John Henry Foskey (Jamaica – 2) | Ireland | £241 | 12 |
| John Nugent Fraser (Jamaica – 1) | Mitchelstown, Co. Cork | £630 | 28 |
| George Alexander Fullerton (Jamaica – 3) | Ballintoy, Co. Antrim | £9324 | 415 |
| William Gavan (Jamaica – 1) | Co. Sligo | £2889 | 152 |
| Ann Gibbons (Jamaica – 1) | Newport, Co. Mayo | £2372 | 125 |
| Eliza Elvira Glenn (Trinidad – 1) | Limavady, Co. Derry | £64 | 1 |
| Melchior Graham(Jamaica – 1) | Cork | £900 | 39 |
| James Gray (Jamaica – 2) | Dublin | £224 | 11 |
| Robert Gray George Gray (Jamaica – 2) | Dublin | £3148 | 166 |
| David Hall (Barbados – 5)(British Guiana – 7) | Tully, Co.Galway | £16,724 £69,979 | 321 1701 |
| Robert Westley Hall-Dare II (British Guiana – 1) | Newtonbarry, Co. Wexford | £14452 | 273 |
| Rev. Archibald Robert Hamilton (Jamaica – 2) | Cork | £5344 | 258 |
| William Stewart Hamilton (British Guiana – 1) | Brown Hall, Co. Donegal | £10,555 | 189 |
| Simeon Hardy (Barbados – 1) | Cork | £269 | 13 |
| Robert Charles Harker (Cape of Good Hope – 1) | Swinford, Co. Mayo | £124 | 3 |
| Sir George Fitzgerald Hill (Trinidad – 1) | Brook Hall, Co.Derry | £64 | 1 |
| Sir Edward Hoare (Jamaica -3) | Mallow, Co. Cork | £19,400 | 998 |
| William Wilson Hornsby (Jamaica – 1) | Maryborough, Co. Laois | £172 | 10 |
| James Hozier (Jamaica – 12) | Ballinasloe, Co. Galway | £7410 | 286 |
| Maria Bellenden Hunt (St. Kitts – 1) | Tandragee, Co. Armagh | £2216 | 131 |
| Hugh Hyndman (British Guiana – 2) (Grenada, St. Vincent, Trinidad – 1 each) | Belfast | £24,459 | 617 |
| Robert Augustus Hyndman (Antigua – 1) | Dublin | £90 | 4 |
| Thomas Hynes (Jamaica – 2) | Galway | £2929 | 150 |
| John Jameson (Antigua – 3) | Dublin | £391 £3073 | 54 198 |
| James Kelly (Jamaica – 2) | Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway | £6140 | 316 |
| Thomas Kelly (Jamaica – 1) | Dublin | £928 | 46 |
| Margaret Kennedy (Dominica – 2) | Rathfriland, Co. Down | £52 | 2 |
| Margaret Kennedy (Jamaica – 1) | Dublin | £1108 | 51 |
| John Kingston MP (British Guiana – 1) | Cork | £7632 | 149 |
| Nicholas Kirwan (Antigua – 1) | Dublin | £2854 | 225 |
| John Knox (Jamaica – 2) | Ballymoney, Co. Antrim | £589 | 22 |
| William Digges La Touche Peter Digges La Touche Mary Digges La Touche (Jamaica – 3) | Dublin Dublin Dublin | £7100 | 404 |
| Sir Harcourt Lees (Rev.) (St. Kitts – 1) | Blackrock, Co. Dublin | £2067 | 125 |
| William Lindsay Michael Lindsay (Grenada – 1) | Tuam, Co. Galway Hollymount, Co. Mayo | £6212 | 206 |
| Fredrick Simon Logier (Cape of Good Hope – 1) | Co. Cavan | £93 | 2 |
| Anne Lowe Hannah Foley (Jamaica – 1) | Lismore, Co. Waterford | £903 | 44 |
| Sarah Lucas (née Beesley) (British Guiana – 3) (St. Vincent – 1) | Ireland | £57,970 | 1,121 |
| Andrew Henry Lynch (Tobago -1) | Galway | £1940 | 85 |
| C. Martyn (Jamaica – 1) | Galway | £1673 | 92 |
| James Massy-Dawson (Jamaica – 2) | Ballynacourty, Co. Tipperary | £8526 | 461 |
| John Mathews(British Guiana – 1) | Tuam, Co. Galway | £1000 | 18 |
| Hugh McCalmont (British Guiana – 2) | Belfast | £21,844 | 426 |
| William McDowall (Grenada – 1) | Dublin | £5139 | 197 |
| Charles McGarel (Barbados – 1) (British Guiana – 13) | Larne, Co. Antrim | £16,725 £135,078 | 321 2,777 |
| Peter McGarel John McGarel (Barbados – 1) | Larne, Co. Antrim | £9904 | 195 |
| Dr. Joseph Magrath (Jamaica – 1) | Ireland | £85 | 5 |
| James Hewitt Massy-Dawson Rev. John Massy-Dawson Louisa Massy-Dawson Anna Maria Poore (née Massy-Dawson (Jamaica – 2) | Co. Tipperary | £8523 | 462 |
| John Mathews (British Guiana – 1) | Tuam, Co. Galway | £1000 | 18 |
| Charles Moore, MP (Barbados – 2 (Tobago – 1) | Mooresfort, Co. Tipperary | £565 | 20 |
| Henry Moore (Barbados – 6) (Tobago – 1) | Ireland | £1991 | 83 |
| Henry Murray (Trinidad – 2) | Ireland | £5437 | 105 |
| Thomas Murray (British Guiana – 5) | Ireland | £33,788 | 649 |
| Thomas Ricketts Myers (Jamaica – 2) | Clonmel | £26 | 1 |
| Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle Garret Nagle (Barbados – 1) | Cork | £4002 | 177 |
| Major General William Nedham (Jamaica – 1) | Bantry, Co. Cork | £3669 | 194 |
| James Neil (Barbados -3) | Ireland | £7644 | 385 |
| Thomas Neilson (Trinidad – 7) | Dublin | £11,725 | 223 |
| Samuel Nelson (Antigua – 2) | Belfast | £4033 | 224 |
| John Lyons Nixon (British Guiana – 2) | Ireland | £17,532 £191 | 348 5 |
| Robert Nolan/ Eleanor Nolan (Jamaica – 1) | Dublin | £600 | 33 |
| Hugh O’Connor/Edward Moore (Antigua – 1) | Dublin | £2399 | 171 |
| Robert Otway (Grenada – 1) | Cork | £461 | 15 |
| Robert Hercules Pakenham (Antigua – 1) | Crumlin, Co. Antrim | £2919 | 217 |
| Eliza Jane Prentice (née Kidd) (Barbados – 8) | Armagh, Co. Armagh | £141 | 12 |
| Georgiana Prentice (Barbados – 2) | Armagh, Co. Armagh | £32 | 4 |
| Richard Patrick Purcell (Grenada – 3) (Trinidad – 1) | Dunane, Co. Laois | £4065 £6212 | 82 206 |
| William Purcell (Trinidad – 1) | Grenada – son of P.J. Purcell | £152 | 3 |
| Rev. James Peter Rhoades (Jamaica – 1) | Clonmel, Co. Tipperary | £3017 | 182 |
| Lt. Gen. Sir Phineas Riall (Jamaica – 1) | Ireland | £1074 | 53 |
| Browne Roberts (Jamaica – 1) | Queen’s County | £4438 | 269 |
| George Bonynge Rochfort (Jamaica – 3) | Dublin | £532 | 36 |
| Thomas Sanderson (Antigua – 1) | Ireland | £1877 | 116 |
| Dudley Semper Michael Joseph Semper (Montserrat – 6) | Co. Galway | £12,505 | 662 |
| Henry Osbourne Seward (British Guiana – 3) | Cork | £2539 | 53 |
| Lucinda Shaw (St. Vincent – 1) | Co. Tipperary | £139 | 6 |
| Edward Sheil (Honduras – 2) | Co. Waterford | £1243 | 16 |
| Wright Sherlock (Trinidad – 4) | Cork | £795 | 15 |
| Robert Simms (Antigua – 1) | Belfast | £2571 | 158 |
| James Simpson (Jamaica – 4) | Ireland | £3319 £1173 | 190 55 |
| James Sproull (Jamaica – 9) | Strabane, Co.Tyrone | £6693 | 374 |
| George Taaffe (Tobago – 1) | Smarmore Castle, Co. Louth | £2743 | 148 |
| Charlotte Tayler (Jamaica – 3) | Strabane, Co. Tyrone | £953 | 53 |
| James Thompson (Antigua – 2) | Derry | £1209 | 112 |
| Samuel Thompson (Dominica – 1) | Muckamore Abbey, Co. Antrim | £3488 | 181 |
| Sir Edward Tierney (St. Kitts – 2) | Dublin | £6459 | 357 |
| Richard Trench (Antigua – 1) | Co. Galway | £926 | 112 |
| William Power Trench (Jamaica – 4) | Co. Galway | £3347 | 175 |
| Sophia Adelaide Walsh (Trinidad – 1) | Naas, Co. Kildare | £3277 | 60 |
| John Watt (Jamaica – 3) | Ramelton, Co. Donegal | £1147 | 55 |
| Robert Welch (Jamaica – 1) | Maryborough, Co. Laois | £1638 | 84 |
| Thomas Wilson (Trinidad – 9) | Dublin | £9444 | 182 |
| Richard Beavor Wynne (Virgin Islands – 1) | The Hermitage, Co. Sligo | £1307 | 91 |
| Total sought | £982,009 | 29,686 | |
| 318 Plantations | Rejected claims | £183,370 | |
| Total granted | £798,639 |
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/29/slavery-abolition-compensation-when-will-britain-face-up-to-its-crimes-against-humanity
[3] https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/an-irish-slave-in-antigua-7acfb106a8e9
[4] W.A. Hart. ‘Africans in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’. Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 33, No. 129 (May, 2002), pp. 19-32
[5] https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/an-irish-slave-in-antigua-7acfb106a8e9
Myles Dungan 
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