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John Meeson Parsons

1798 - 1870

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Art collector.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

Subscribed to J.S. Buckingham’s anti-slavery The Slave States of America (London and Paris, 1842).

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: bequeathed in 1870: NG813–815 (now at Tate, N00813–00815).

Bibliography

G. C. Boase and A. P. Baker, 'Parsons, John Meeson', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21467
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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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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