P_10433_2557 – John Bindley
Co-investor with ‘Mr Wright’ in a single slaving voyage from London, that of the Otley Lads in 1767 to Sierra Leone and Barbados, for which he was given as ‘Binley’. Almost certainly John Bindley, MP for Dover 1766-8, known to have had a manager and then partner named William Wright; the two men according to Lewis Namier engaged in a variety of speculative schemes c. 1767, ahead of Bindley’s bankruptcy in 1769. Bindley was a distiller, following his father (d. 1761), then Secretary of the Board of Excise and Commissioner of the Excise before entering Parliament.
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First name: John
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Last name: Bindley
Aliases: Binley
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Trade
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Political Offices Held
Parliament
MP for Dover 1766-68.
Government
Sec. to the Board of Excise 1761-3 and Commissioner of Excise 1763-4.
Bankruptcies
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Namier, HoP citing GM 1769 p. 216
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Sources: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/bindley-john-1735-86. Namier in this entry refers to records of 1770: 'A great deal of information concerning Bindley’s financial affairs can be derived from an Exchequer case which he brought in 1770 against the banker A. Fordyce and his partners, E112/1614/1287.'
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Crossings (1)
77868 - Otley Lads (1766 - 1767)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 18/02/1786
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Occupation: Distiller (Craft)
Distiller with his father John, then Sec. to Board of Excise 1761-3 and Commissioner of Excise 1763-4.
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Will of John Bindley, headed No. 8 Rathbone Place. He left all his property in trust to pay his debts, asking that William Currie of Poplar and the Duke of Portland not demand the £100 each had advanced to him, as he thought by way of gift. He left his residuary estate to his son John Bindley, his natural daughter Elizabeth Smith and his friend Mrs Theed. According to a codicil of January 1786 when he was of 22 Great Marylebone Street, his wife had eft property to their daughter, Elizabeth North. His executor was his brother James.
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