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Bartholomew Claypon

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1831

Biography

Provincial banker and annuitant on 'slave-property' in Nevis. Bartholomew Claypon of Boston Lincolnshire was among a group of individuals purchasing, for a total of 拢15,000, annuities from John Mills secured on the latter's estates and enslaved people on Nevis in 1774, when for 拢250 he purchased an annuity of 拢25 p.a., for the lives of himself aged 21 and his wife Jean also 21. He left 拢140,000 in 1831. Bartholomew Claypon's son, also named Bartholomew, left 拢180,000 in 1866. The family's bank was a predecessor firm of Lloyds.

  1. Will of Bartholomew Claypon of Boston Lincolnshire proved 28/09/1831.

Sources

Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 65-94; W.D. Rubinstein Who were the rich? rev. ed. Vol. II (2018) 1831/22; National Probate Calendar 1866.

  1. PROB 11/1790/91.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
Bartholomew, Joseph
Wealth at death
£140,000
Rubinstein
1831/22

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Annuitant
The Prospect [ Nevis ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Founding partner
Garfit, Claypon ('The Boston Bank')
Banker  
 
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Addresses (1)

Boston, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England
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