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18-499: Ellis was the son of Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford and his wife, the Honourable Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of John Hervey, Lord Hervey , eldest son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol , the "Earl-Bishop" of Derry . Educated at Eton College , He succeeded his great-grandfather Lord Bristol in the barony of Howard de Walden on 8 July 1803, aged four. Ellis became the 6th Lord Howard de Walden in 1807,

36-526: A daughter. In 1803 their four-year-old son and heir Charles succeeded his great-grandfather Lord Bristol as sixth Baron Howard de Walden . Their second son was the army officer Augustus Frederick Ellis . There is a memorial in St George's Church, Esher for Charles and his second wife, Louisa, who died 1877. Saint Thomas in the Vale Parish, Jamaica Saint Thomas in the Vale Parish

54-466: A mission to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (January 1826). This role allowed him to move into international diplomacy, as he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Stockholm , Sweden , from 2 October 1832, to the court of Lisbon , Portugal , from 22 November 1833, and at Brussels, Belgium , from 10 December 1846. Lord Howard de Walden was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of

72-712: A third round. In 1832, Ellis was in Jamaica during a slave rebellion led by Samuel Sharpe , the Baptist War resulted in Ellis suffering losses on his sugar plantations to the tune of about £41,000. Lord Seaford left Jamaica for Britain in the middle of 1834, just before the Apprenticeship period was implemented following the emancipation of the slaves. According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at

90-576: A title that descended to him through his mother's line, and when his father died in 1845, he became the 2nd Lord Seaford. Although his family’s wealth initially derived from sugar plantations in Jamaica, it was his marriage to the Duke of Portland’s daughter that ultimately saved the family from bankruptcy. Ellis inherited all his father's property in Jamaica, including sugar estates in Montpelier, Jamaica , Caymanas Park , Shettlewood and Crawle. Although

108-741: The County of Sussex . In the Parliament of the United Kingdom , Ellis was a prominent defender of slavery in the West Indies plantations . He was for many years considered to be the head of West India Interest , the lobby of planters and merchants in the British parliament who opposed the abolitionists . Ellis served as his colleague and friend Foreign Secretary George Canning 's second in his duel with Secretary of State for War and

126-907: The University College London , Seaford was awarded compensation in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 with the Slave Compensation Act 1837 . Seaford was awarded over £18,000 compensation for the emancipation of 146 enslaved people on Shettlewood Pen, 70 in Crawle Pen, 153 in Caymanas, 276 in New Montpelier, and 373 in Old Montpelier. A total of 1,018 enslaved people were freed from Seaford's estates. Lord Seaford

144-478: The British government emancipated the slaves in the 1830s, Charles was compensated for his liberated slaves to the tune of over £18,000. Charles Ellis was elected to the House of Commons for Heytesbury in 1793, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Seaford from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1826 and East Grinstead from 1807 to 1812. In 1826 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Seaford , of Seaford in

162-651: The Colonies Viscount Castlereagh in 1809. The duel occurred because both Canning and Castlereagh wished to succeed the Duke of Portland as Prime Minister and because Castlereagh blamed Canning for his impending dismissal from the War Office . After two rounds in which Canning was wounded and Castlereagh was grazed by a bullet, Ellis and Castlereagh's second the Earl of Yarmouth intervened to stop

180-904: The Duke of Portland's London Estate in Marylebone which had become extremely valuable. Her sister died childless and so the estate became part of the Howard de Walden inheritance. They had seven children: Lord Howard de Walden died in August 1868 in Belgium, aged 69, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick George Ellis, 7th Baron Howard de Walden. Lady Lucy Joan Howard de Walden died in July 1899 in St. James House, West Malvern, Worcestershire . Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford (19 December 1771 – 9 July 1845)

198-550: The Ellis family wealth was built on these, after 1832 they were in decline. Charles Augustus was raised in England and does not seem to have visited Jamaica before 1846 when he took his wife, Lucy and son Frederick. Sugar production had fallen dramatically and in 1855 was abandoned and replaced with cattle rearing. The slaves on his properties were emancipated in 1832, and their wages were very low. In an attempt to improve profits on his plantations, Ellis further reduced wages paid to

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216-764: The Order of the Bath on 22 July 1838 and a Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword in 1841. He succeeded in the barony of Seaford on the death of his father in July 1845. Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland , at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828. She and her elder sister jointly inherited in 1879

234-592: The daughter of Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet , but George died without issue in 1815, and his property passed to Charles. Charles was educated at Christ Church, Oxford , and he became an absentee planter based in England. Charles inherited the Montpelier estate, while his older brother, also named John, inherited their father's properties in the parishes of St Mary and St George. John married another daughter of Parker, named Antoinette, but died heavily in debt in 1832, and his properties were acquired by Charles. When

252-535: The newly-emancipated slaves, which met with resistance and resulted in a strike. He actively encouraged workers from Europe, notably Portugal and Germany, but the plantations remained unprofitable. Lord Howard de Walden became an Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 24 April 1817. He served as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 26 May 1824 to 9 June 1828, during which time he acted as Attaché to Lord Stuart de Rothesay on

270-472: The younger George Ellis (poet) would later complain to his maternal uncle, Edward Long , about John's avarice. Across his six Jamaican estates, John owned over 1,200 slaves, and he was ranked among the top one percent of wealthy sugar planters in Jamaica. In 1782, John and his wife Elizabeth boarded a ship from Jamaica to England, but the ship was lost at sea, and Charles inherited his father's wealthy properties in Jamaica. George Rose Ellis married Anne,

288-748: Was a British politician, planter and peer. Charles was the second son of John Ellis of Jamaica , who acquired a significant amount of wealth from sugar and slavery at a number of estates, including Montpelier, Jamaica in Saint James Parish , the Newry plantation in St Mary , and the Palm estate in St Thomas-in-the-Vale . When John's brother George died young, he ran his estates on behalf of his young nephew, George Rose Ellis. However,

306-667: Was not convinced that the Apprenticeship would work, and he was a great believer in encouraging white European immigration to Jamaica. To this end, he donated land from his Montpelier estate, which was used to create a village for recently arrived German immigrants, called Seaford Town, Jamaica after him. Lord Seaford died 9 July 1845. He had married the Hon. Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey, daughter of John Hervey, Lord Hervey , eldest son of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol , in 1798. She died in January 1803, aged 22. They had 2 sons and

324-611: Was one of the historic parishes of Jamaica created following colonisation of the island by the British . It was in the centre of the island in Middlesex County but was abolished in 1866 when it was merged into Saint Catherine Parish . It is not to be confused with Saint Thomas in the East Parish, now just known as Saint Thomas Parish , which was so named to differentiate the two. The parish elected two members to

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