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Anna Eliza Brydges, Duchess of Chandos

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and the enslaved people who worked it. She was an absentee manager of the plantation into the 1780s, by which time she was joint owner with her second husband. The property passed to
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Anna was the daughter of Richard Gamon and his wife, Elizabeth (née Grace). The Gamon family lived in a manor house, Datchworthbury, in the village of
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In 1789, the Duke died from injuries received when his wife inadvertently moved the chair he was about to sit in. In 1791, Anna was declared a
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Anna married the 3rd Duke of Chandos in 1777. This was a second marriage for both parties. They had one child who survived to adulthood,
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and usher of the Court of Chancery, was accused of misappropriating some of the duchess's income and died in a presumed suicide.
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included £6,630 compensation for the loss of the slaves on the estate. This was awarded to the trustees of his
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to regulate the shipment of enslaved people to the West Indies, "where he owned estates".
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who grew sugar on Jamaica and who also served as Lieutenant Governor of the island.
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Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
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and her involvement in running it was discussed in a television programme,
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in the Irish courts over the management of her property. Ireland's
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Richard Temple-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
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was supposedly protecting her affairs, but in 1794 judge
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Anne Eliza Gamon
James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos
Datchworth
Richard Grace Gamon
Winchester
History of Parliament
Slave Trade Act 1788
Roger Hope Elletson
Old Etonian
Hope Plantation
Kingston
Anne
when slavery was abolished
grandson Richard
marriage settlement
Lady Anne Elizabeth Brydges
lunatic
Chandos House
ward of court
lawsuit
Court of Chancery
Richard Power
accountant-general
sugar plantation
David Olusoga
BAFTA
Royal Historical Society
Richard Temple-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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