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Robert Hibbert (merchant)

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Robert Hibbert (1750–1835) was an English merchant in Kingston, Jamaica. He owned Albion plantation, owned slaves, and was a justice of the peace for Kingston, Saint George, and Saint Mary parishes.

In 1791, he purchased the original Birtles Hall in Cheshire, demolished it and built a new house, and in 1798 he purchased Pains Hill in Surrey.

References

  1. ^ Robert Hibbert of Chalfont Park and Birtles Hall. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 27 May 2019.


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