October 26, 1755 - John Tarleton
A prominent Liverpool merchant who built his fortune across multiple vessels and Caribbean plantations, Tarleton represents the commercial infrastructure that sustained the transatlantic slave trade at its height — the ship-owners, managers, and civic leaders whose respectability gave the trade its institutional footing. His career spanned ownership stakes in slave ships, plantation holdings across Dominica and the Grenadines, and the mayoralty of one of Britain's busiest slaving ports.
From Wikipedia
John Tarleton (1718–1773) was an English ship-owner and slave-trader, and Mayor of Liverpool in 1764.
Tarleton was born in 1718 to Thomas Tarleton of Bolesworth Castle a slave trader and owner in Grenada, who with his brother John had been involved with trading in West Indies and Africa.
Tarleton was the part-owner and manager of several ships engaged in the slave trade, the Tarleton and the Swan in the 1750s, and the John in the 1760s, mainly delivering slaves to Jamaica. At his death in 1773, Tarleton also owned slaves at the Belfield Estate in Dominica. Tarleton rose to become a prominent Liverpool merchant, and after becoming Mayor in 1764, was encouraged to stand for Parliament, but declined. Tarleton made significant investment in real estate in his last decade. He owned estates in Carriacou and Dominica as well as stores and houses at Grenada and Grand Ance, Carriacou. He also had several houses in Liverpool, Fairfield Estate near Buxton and tenements at Aigburth near Liverpool, and finally secured part of Aigburth Hall Estate – the old family house – about 1770.
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