C. Lofft

Classical scholar.

No known connections with slavery.

According to his father’s entry in ODNB, Capel Lofft (1751–1824)’s ‘report of Mansfield’s crucial decision in the case of James Somerset—that the laws of England did not recognize slavery—allowed the nascent anti-slavery movement to derive a considerable political advantage. Thereafter Lofft was associated with movements for constitutional, legal, and religious reform. He was a strong critic of the British government’s attempt to re-assert control over the North American colonies by force’. (G. M. Ditchfield, ‘Lofft, Capel (1751–1824)’, in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [online], Oxford 1992 -, <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/16930> accessed 6 August 2021.)

Donor: presented in 1839: NG175.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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H. A. Holden and R. Smail, 'Lofft, Capell', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/16931
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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