William Beckford of Somerley

William Beckford of Somerley (* 1744 in Jamaica, † February 5, 1799 in London) was a Jamaican plantation owner and author.

He was an illegitimate son of Richard Beckford and so belonged to the Jamaica very influential family of Beckford. Among his possessions the sugar cane plantation Roaring River Estate was in Westmoreland Parish to the west of Jamaica.

Writings

  • Remarks upon the situation of Negroes in Jamaica impartially made ​​from a local experience of nearly thirteen years in Iceland did (London 1788)
  • A descriptive account of the Iceland of Jamaica with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar -cane ... so observations and reflections upon what would probably be the Consequences of an abolition of the slave -trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves (London 1790)
  • Author
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1744
  • Died in 1799
  • Man
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