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Authorised form of nameIsted; Thomas (1677 - 1731); barrister
Dates1677 - 1731
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSt Dunstans in the West, London, England
Date of birth09 December 1677
Place of deathEcton, Northamptonshire, England
Date of death09 October 1731
OccupationBarrister; Virtuoso
ActivityEducation:
University College, Oxford (matriculated 1695); Middle Temple (admitted 1695)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1702)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/11/1698
Age at election21
ProposerSamuel Pepys
Sir Hans Sloane
RelationshipsParents: Ambrose Isted, of the parish of St Dunstan in the West, London, and Sarah Isted [née Feltham]
Spouse: Anne Rose, daughter of Elizabeth Langley Rose, the widow of Fulke Rose of Jamaica, and daughter of Alderman John Langley, a wealthy heiress of sugar plantations in Jamaica worked by enslaved people, and Fulke Rose, British physician and early colonist of Jamaica. Step-daughter of Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685).
Children: Ambrose Isted, owner of Mickleton Plantation (and the enslaved people on it) 1761-1765. The estate had been registered to Mrs Anne Isted (q.v., under Anne Isted) 1741-1761; Elizabeth Isted; Sarah (Isted) Sturges; Mary Isted; Phillipa Isted.
OtherInfoHis will, proved 1731, he bequeathed his interest in an [unnamed] estate in Jamaica to trustees for his son, with the instruction that they be 'mindful to supply my plantation in Jamaica with negroes, servants, cattle and all other things necessary and proper for the support of the same.'
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hunter; Foster; MT; Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640747; last accessed 06/12/2023]
CodeNA7769
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/390/110Bond of Thomas Isted to the Treasurer of the Royal Society16 November 1698
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