MS 681 18 03
Reference code
MS 681 18 03
Title
Papers of the wider Barrett and related families: Papers and portraits of Samuel Barrett
Level
Sub-series
Administrative / Biographical history
Samuel Barrett (1788–1824) 'Handsome Sam', was the eldest son of Samuel Barrett (1765–1794) and Elizabeth Barrett Williams (1754–1834), and brother of Richard, Edward, and George Goodin Barrett. Educated in England under the guardianship of John Graham-Clarke, he later returned to Jamaica. Samuel lived at Park Hill, Yorkshire, in 1814. He owned Schawfield Estate, the Spring estate, and Thatchfield Pen in St Ann, Jamaica. Samuel later lived at Ham Common in Surrey, then moved to Boulogne, France, in 1823. He married Margaret Gillis, and they had two children: Samuel Goodin Barrett and Henrietta Willoughby Barrett. Samuel died in Cheltenham in June 1824.
Date
1814-1818
Extent & medium
3 items
Content description
This sub-series contains letters and portraits of Samuel Barrett
Publication note
A colour reproduction of a portrait of Samuel Barrett appears in R A Barrett: The Barretts of Jamaica: the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, between pages 148-149
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