John Blythe (Jamaica)

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John Blythe (died 1830s) was the owner of the Kendal and Tweedside estates in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.[1] He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.[2]

His son with Mary, "a free woman of colour", was the chemist John Buddle Blyth.[1]

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  1. ^ a b John Blyth. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. ^ Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.

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