P_10433_1318 – John Hankey
John Hankey (1741-1792), London West India merchant and slave-owner, co-owner with his business partner (and adoptive father) Peter Simond (q.v.) of a slaving voyage from London by a ship named the Simond to the Gold Coast and Grenada in 1777. Simond & Hankey was a major mercantile firm in the development of the Ceded and Neutral Islands as slave-sugar complexes under British rule after 1763: John Hankey was a witness to the 1789-90 Committee on the Slave Trade. ‘Is a very large proprietor of lands in the Ceded Islands, since 1764, also has very large sums outstanding’, given later as £250,000 at 5%. Hankey was the son of Sir Thomas Hankey, and member of an extended City family that endured for over 150 years, with later partners in the West India mercantile business including John Hankey’s grandson Thomson Hankey (1805-93), an influential Governor of the Bank of England.
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First name: John
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Last name: Hankey
Aliases: Hankey
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Trade
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Sir Thomas Hankey
Father
John Hankey was the second son of Sir Thomas Hankey.
Sarah Hankey nee Barnard
Mother
Sarah Hankey ws the daughter of Sir John Barnard
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Plantation owner: Yes
Major slave-owner on Grenada
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649785
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Crossings (1)
24822 - Simond (1777 - 1777)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 06/09/1741
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Death
Date: 05/09/1792
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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
Partner in Simond & Hankey of London, major merchants for the Ceded and Neutral Islands.
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
The will of John Hankey "of the City of London merchant, second son of Sir Thomas Hankey late of the said City Knight deceased by Sarah his wife who was one of the daughters of Sir John Barnard Knight deceased, late one of the aldermen of the said City", made 04/08/1773. He left an annuity of £200 p.a. to his wife Elizabeth over and above the [unspecified] provisions made for her under their marriage settlement of 1769. He appointed guardians for his two young sons John Peter and Thomson. He left his estates on Grenada and elsewhere, together with his personalty, in trust (the trustees for this were his brother-in-law Beaumont Hotham and his brothers Thomas and Robert Hankey) to be sold, with the proviso that his mortgages over estates [and enslaved people] in Grenada not be called in but left on the same term as his partnership with Peter Simond, and £12,000 be paid over to the trustees of his marriage settlement for his wife's benefit. In a codicil of August 1790, he recorded the birth of another son Frederick and the death of his wife and revoked the appointment of Sir Beaumont Hotham.
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