Charles William Stewart Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry

Formerly Stewart. Army officer and diplomatist.

No known connections with slavery.

His half-brother, Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh (1769–1822), as Foreign Minister, ‘cooperated with senior officials to use the Royal Navy to detect and capture slave ships; the freed slaves were sent to freedom in a new British colony of Sierra Leone’. (‘Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh’, Wikipedia [online], <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh#Abolition_of_the_slave_trade> accessed 5 August 2021.) N.B. the formation of Sierra Leone was problematic; the freed people often faced dire poverty and racial tension.

Former owner: NG purchased in 1834: NG10.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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E. M. Lloyd and A. J. Heesom, 'Vane [formerly Stewart], Charles William, third marquess of Londonderry', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26467
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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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