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The Canaries plantation was managed on Greatheed's behalf by his uncle Craister until 1772, and then by Richard Greatheed, another family member. In the early 1780s, the estate paid tax on over 230 enslaved people, and in 1788 made profits of £380, which was considered a bad year. Correspondence
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The majority of his income in his earlier life came from the St Kitts plantation, although he also had some income from his land holdings in Warwick. He invested his wealth in the development of the
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as prisoners of war, alongside many other British families. The younger Bertie Greatheed was becoming recognised as an artist, and his painting of
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Greatheed travelled extensively throughout Europe with his family, and resided in Germany, France and Italy. In 1803, they were detained in
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on 8 October 1804, aged 23. Shortly after his son's death, it was revealed he had an illegitimate daughter, Ann Caroline, with a woman in
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In 1780, Greatheed married his first cousin, Ann Greatheed, who was born in St Kitts. They had one son, also called Bertie, born in 1781.
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impressed the Emperor's family and probably gave the Greatheed's favourable treatment. Whilst staying in
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between Greatheed and his St Kitts plantation managers is now archived at
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When residing in Florence he became a member of the society called
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Greatheed, Samuel (c.1710-65), of Guy's Cliffe, nr. Warwick.
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Greatheed was born on 19 October 1759, the son of the MP
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Index

Greatheed

Samuel Greatheed
Guy's Cliffe
Warwick
Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster
Guy's Cliffe Estate
Warwick
St Kitts
Basseterre
Lincolnshire
Georgian
spa town
Leamington Priors
Parade
Royal Pump Rooms
Warwickshire County Record Office
abolition of slavery
Slavery Abolition Act 1833
Paris
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vicenza
influenza
Dresden
Lord Charles Greatheed Bertie Percy
Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley
Gli Oziosi
Della-Cruscans
William Gifford
Reuben

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