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Thomas Boddington of Clapton

Profile & Legacies Summary

1735 - 1821

Biography

London West india merchant, retiring from the Boddingtons family firm in 1794. Brother of Benjamin (1730-1791), and uncle of Samuel (1766-1843) (q.v.) and Thomas (1774-1862) (q.v.).

Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Boddington of Clapton, married Isaac Hawkins Browne, in the ODNB as 'politician and industrialist' 13/12/1805 as his second wife. The entry describes Thomas Boddington of Clapton as a West India merchant.
Thomas Boddington of Clapton left 拢120,000 at his death. His grandsons the Rev. Thomas Fremeaux Boddington and Reginald Brooke Boddington left 拢50,000 (resworn from 拢60,000) and 拢16,000 on their deaths in 1863 and 1871 respectively. Thomas Boddington of Clapton's son Benjamin Boddington (1776-1855) had been a partner with his (Benjamin's) cousin Samuel Boddington (q.v.) before eloping with his wife.

Sources

J.M. Scott, 'Browne, Isaac Hawkins (1745-1818), rev. Stephen M. Lee, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3678, accessed 3 Feb. 2014].
National Probate Calendar 1871.

Further Information

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

Benjamin (1776-1855)

Wealth at death

£120,000

Occupation

West India merchant

Rubinstein

1821/18

Associated Estates (6)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1770 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Calliaqua, later Villa Estate [ St Vincent ]

The mortgage was held by successor partnerships who in 1799 agreed that it be discharged by Bryan Edwards' London firm over the following 5 years. Edwards however died in 1802 and his firm was dissolved.

1792 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder

Camacarabou [ St Vincent | Charlotte ]

1760 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Old Road [ Antigua ]

By a deed of 10/05/1760, William Young then of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds on Antigua and 333 acres of the Old Road estate to secure 拢7000 to Richard Maitland, Thomas Boddington and Benjamin Boddington. The mortgage grew and passed through the successive iterations of the Boddington firm until 1799.

1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Pembroke [ St Vincent ]

1798 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Pennitenny [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Queensbury [Queensberry] Estate [ St Vincent ]