P_10433_3303 – Peter Thellusson
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London merchant and financier (1735-1797), co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Lottery in 1765, together with Anthony Fonblanque (q.v.) and reportedly John Fonblanque (who had died in 1760). Peter Thellusson was actually in partnership with Anthony Fonblanque and with the latter’s brother John’s widow Eleonor[a] Fonblanque. According to the History of Parliament entry for John Fonblanques’s son John (MP for Camelford 1802-1806), Thellusson was John’s ‘former clerk’ and had secured the Fonblanques’ business for himself, whereas in fact Thellusson was from an established family of bankers in France and then Geneva. Three of Peter Thellusson’s sons – Charles, George Woodford and Peter Isaac – were MPs. Thellusson built Plaistow Lodge in Bromley and bought Brodsworth Hall, on which succeeding generations of his family probably had more impact as a physical legacy than he himself. He left some £700,000 in 1797, and his will gave rise to changes in Chancery law and practice.
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Thellusson
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Thelluson, Peter
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London
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Son of Isaac Thellusson, a Huguenot banker of France and Geneva
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Plantation owner:
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Sources:
PROB 11/1297/277
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/slavery-connections-brodsworth-hall/
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101055761-quernmore-secondary-school-plaistow-and-sundridge-ward#.Y2OK2_PP2bs
https://www.bblhs.org.uk/plaistow-lodge-and-lord-kinnaird
Patrick Polden, Peter Thellusson's Will of 1797 and its Consequences on Chancery Law (Lampeter, Wales, 2002).
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Was slave trading profitable:
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Will
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Physical Imprints
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Urban
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Built
Town/City:
Bromley (Kent)
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1777
Value:
£40,000
Plaistow Lodge, Bromley, built c. 1777 by Peter Thellusson, now Quernmore Secondary School, at reported cost of £40,000.