Chaloner Arcedeckne ( – 20 December 1809), MP was an

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politician and a Jamaican slave-holder and landowner during British rule.

Biography

He descended from the Arcedecknes, an Anglo-Irish family who arrived in Suffolk and made it their home. His father, Andrew Arcedeckne (d.

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, 17 August 1763) of Gurnamone,

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, was

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, and he established Jamaica's Golden Grove slave-worked sugar plantation in 1734. His mother was Elizabeth Kersey (b. Jamaica; d. circa 1743). A creole, Arcedeckne was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Arcedeckne inherited the property in Jamaica from his father. Benjamin Cowell, Arcedeckne's brother-in-law, was his business partner, arranging the insurance for sugar cargoes shipped to England from Golden Grove. As an absentee proprietor, Arcedeckne also depended upon the Jamaican estate attorney,

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, who went on to become the wealthiest sugar planter in Jamaica. As an attorney, Taylor was Arcedeckne's "most frequent client and correspondent". Sir John Blois, 5th Baronet lent

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to Arcedeckne in the 1770s for 21 years, after which Arcedeckne built

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as his seat in 1794. In 1780, he became MP for Wallingford and, in 1784, he sat for Westbury, resigning from the latter by becoming

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. He was

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during the period of 1797–98. Arcedeckne died on 20 December 1809. He had married Catherine, daughter and coheir of John Leigh of

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. They had four children, sons Andrew and Chaloner, and daughters, Frances-Katherine and Mary-Louisa. His son,

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was also an MP.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arcedeckne, Chaloner 1743 births 1809 deaths People educated at Eton College British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford High Sheriffs of Suffolk 18th-century British landowners British slave owners