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Peter Beckford (colonial administrator) Colonel Peter Beckford (1643–1710) was acting Governor of Jamaica in 1702. He was also a prominent slave owner, plantation owner, and businessman in early British Jamaica. By the time he died, he had accumulated 20 estates, 1,200 slaves and ...
(1643–1710), acting governor of Jamaica in 1702 *
Peter Beckford (junior) Peter Beckford ( – 3 April 1735) was a Jamaican-born planter, politician and merchant who served as speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica from 1707 to 1713, and again in 1716. The son of one of the richest men in the colony of Jamaica, ...
(1672/3–1735), his son, politician, slave owner and businessman in colonial Jamaica * Sir
Peter Beckford (hunter) Sir Peter Beckford (1740–1811) of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, was a British landowner, huntsman, writer, collector and the patron of the Classical composer and pianist Muzio Clementi. He kept his own pack of hounds and his 1781 work '' Thoug ...
(1740–1811), British landowner, huntsman, writer and collector {{hndis, Beckford, Peter