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George Douglas of Chilston Park
was the (adopted?) son of Alexander Douglas of Finsbury Square, London, born 1731,
and Elizabeth Taylor.
George Douglas of Chilston Park,
slave-owner in Tobago and Grenada, who left property to his adopted
daughter Margaret and her husband James Douglas Stoddart Douglas, to
George Douglas Stoddart and to his nephew and niece Alexander and
Elizabeth Houstoun Douglas. He left £160,000 at death. His fortune
passed to the Akers-Douglas family, later Viscounts Chilston. He was the
son of the London merchant
Alexander Douglas who purchased the
Baads estate in Midlothian
in 1787.
He as a merchant of Finsbury Square, and, in 1832, he
was High Sheriff of Kent. He died unmarried in 1833.
George
Douglas, late of Chilston
Park, in the county of Kent, Esq., was seized, in fee simple, of the
manors of Chilston, Bowley, and Lenham, the mansion house and Park
called Chilston Park, and divers farms and tenements, situated in the
county of Kent. And the said George Douglas being possessed of a very
considerable personable estate...
In the will of George Douglas of Chilston Park proved
12/07/1833. He left £50,000 in 3 per cent consolidated annuities to 'Mrs
Margaret Stoddart wife of James Douglas Stoddart now residing with me'
and his estate at Chilston to Margaret Stoddart for life, with remainder
to James Douglas Stoddart for life, then to his nephew Rev. Alexander
Houstoun and his niece Elizabeth Houstoun for their lives, then to his
cousin Aretas Akers son of Aretas Akers for life. He left his estates
and 'negroes' in Grenada to James Douglas Stoddart and in Tobago to
James Douglas Stoddart's brother George Stoddart. His residual estate
went to Margaret Stoddart for life and then half went to Rev. Alexander
Houstoun and half to Aretas Akers.
In the will of Alexander
Douglas of Baads, Mid Lothian and of Finsbury Square merchant proved
27/10/1797. Under the will, he left to his son George his estate of
Miraubeou [sic] in Grenada (subject to his wife's annuity of £450 p.a.),
his estate in Tobago called Calder Hall, and 400 acres at Bloody Bay in
Tobago. To his son Robert he left his share in the leased Lamberts or
Middle Island estate on St Kitts and £7000, to his daughter Isabella
Houstoun he left £4000 and to his sister Isabella the wife of
Sir James Douglas HM Consul at Naples
he left an annuity of £200 p.a. He left £50,000 in trust, £10,000 to be
laid out on land in England and £40,000 in Scotland. The estate of Baads
was left in entail.
See also:
• Chilston Park
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