Robert Milligan

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British slave owner and merchant

Business ProfessionalsLived 1746 to 1809 · aged 62

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In this map of 1773 of Jamaica the small dots, not tightly clustered, are "sugar works", which were in that century almost exclusively worked by slaves

Statue of Robert Milligan formerly in front of the Museum of London Docklands, by Richard Westmacott

Business Professionals born in the 1740s 6

Benjamin Vulliamy43.2 Anne Pépin40.4

Ioannis Varvakis46.6

Colin Macfarquhar39.6

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable54.2 Fenda Lawrence37.5

About this person

Robert Milligan was a Scottish merchant, ship-owner and slave trader who was the driving force behind the construction and initial statutory sectoral monopoly of the West India Docks in London. From 1768 to 1779 Milligan was a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica. He left Jamaica in 1779 to establish himself in London, where he got married and had a family of eight children. He moved to Hampstead shortly before he died in 1809. By the time of his death, one of Milligan's partnerships had interests in estates in Jamaica which owned 526 slaves in their sugar plantations.

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