Roger Hope Elletson
Roger Hope Elletson (1727—28 November, 1775, Bath) was a Jamaican planter who owned one of the first sugar plantations and enslaved Africans, who supplied the labour in Jamaica. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1746.[1]
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He returned to Jamaica and was elected as a Member of the House of Assembly for Port Royal. Then in 1757, he was appointed to the Royal Council. Elletson served as Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from 1767 to 1768.[1]
Roger Elletson owned an estate called "Merrymans Hill" in St Andrew, Jamaica, which spanned 600 acres. By 1753, he had enslaved 93 Africans.[1]
Elletson passed away when on a visit to Bath, England in 1775.[1]
References
- "Roger Hope Elletson". www.ucl.ac.uk. Legacies of British Slavery. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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