Jasper Farmer Baillie

Jasper Farmer Baillie was baptised in St Andrew, Jamaica in 1802, aged 11. His parents were David Baillie Esq. of Jamaica, and Anna Lewis, a ‘free brown woman’. David Baillie also had two other children, Louisa and Henrietta, by a Susanna Lewis, also ‘a brown woman’ and probably the same person. David Baillie owned enslaved people in St Catherine, Jamaica. Susanna Lewis registered enslaved individuals as guardian to Jasper and Louisa, and also owned slaves herself. Jasper matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 09/05/1812. He became an Anglican clergyman, and lived in Great Rissington, Gloucestershire, where he did not own his property. Upon his father’s death in 1826, Jasper inherited a portion of his books (£30 were left to David’s wife Phoebe, and the rest to Jasper). His father also left him £2500 of 4% consols, and a further £2500. In 1829, Jasper donated toward the establishment of King’s College London; however, his name on the donor list appears as ‘Jasper Palmer Baillie’. Toward the end of his life, he was a lodger at Elm House, Isle of Wight. He died in London, leaving £6000.