Roger Hope Elletson
Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
About Roger Hope Elletson
Lived 1727 – 1775 (aged 47–48). Roger Hope Elletson was a British plantation owner.
Roger Hope Elletson (1727 — 28 November 1775) was a Jamaican planter and politician who was Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from 1767 to 1768.
Early life Roger was the younger son of Richard and Susanna Elletson. The family owned the Hope Estate near Kingston, one of the first sugar plantations in Jamaica.
He was educated at Eton College and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1746.
Planter and politician Roger Hope Elletson returned to Jamaica and is recorded as the owner of an estate called "Merrymans Hill" in St Andrew, Jamaica, which spanned 600 acres. By 1753, he owned 93 slaves.
Elletson died when on a visit to Bath, England in 1775. He was survived by his wife Anna, who inherited the Hope Estate and married in 1777 James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos.
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Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
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Roger Hope Elletson was born in 1727.
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Roger Hope Elletson died in 1775.
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Roger Hope Elletson was a plantation owner.
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Roger Hope Elletson was British.
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