View source for Roger Hope Elletson 1723-1775

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===[[name::Roger]] [[name::Hope]] [[name::ELLETSON]] [[date of birth::1723]]-[[date of death::1775]]===

====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Richard Elletson]] of [[location::Jamaica]], [[occupation::plantation owner]]. Matriculated at [[education::Trinity College, Cambridge]] 1746, but did not graduate; in 1744 he was admitted at [[organisations::Lincoln's Inn]]. He returned to Jamaica in the 1750s to run the family estates there; in 1753 he is recorded as owning a 600-acre estate with 93 enslaved people. He was elected a member of the House of Assembly of [[location::Port Royal]], and in 1757 a member of the Royal Council; in 1767-8 he was [[occupation::Lieutenant Governor]] of Jamaica. He died during a visit to England.

====Books====
Elletson used an engraved armorial bookplate, made when he was at Trinity College (Franks 9725). The extent of his library is not known; after monetary bequests to some relatives, he left all his estate to his second wife [[family::Anna Eliza Elletson|Anna Eliza]], who went on to marry James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos.

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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D557976 Will of Roger Hope Elletson, the National Archives PROB 11/1014/29].
*[https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640755 Roger Hope Elletson, Legacies of British Slavery].
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903-4.
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