John Blythe (Jamaica)
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John Blythe (died 1830s) was the owner of the
Kendal Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, England. It lies within the River Kent's dale, from which its name is derived, just outside the boundary of t ...
and Tweedside estates in
Westmoreland Parish Westmoreland () is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, on the south side of the island. It lies south of Hanover, southwest of Saint James, and northwest of Saint Elizabeth, in the county of Cornwall. The chief town and capital is Savanna-la- ...
, Jamaica.John Blyth.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
He was elected to the
House of Assembly of Jamaica The House of Assembly was the legislature of the British colony of Jamaica. It held its first meeting on 20 January 1664 at Spanish Town. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. p. 15. As a result of the Morant B ...
in 1820. Hakewill, James. (1825)
A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821.
' London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
His son with Mary, "a free woman of colour", was the chemist
John Buddle Blyth John Buddle Blyth (1814 – 24 December 1871) was a Jamaican-born chemist who was the first professor of chemistry at Queen's College Cork in Ireland. With August Wilhelm von Hofmann, he was the first to report photopolymerisation which they ...
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Members of the House of Assembly of Jamaica 1830s deaths Year of birth missing Jamaican landowners Westmoreland Parish Jamaican slave owners {{Jamaica-politician-stub