Barrister and art collector.
Michael Mucklow Zachary
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Biographical notes
Slavery connections
Zachary was the nephew of Thomas Wagstaffe (d.1822) (UCL Department of History, ‘Thomas Wagstaffe’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633738> accessed 30 July 2021) and one of his three residuary heirs. The Leicesterfields estate in Clarendon, Jamaica, was registered to Wagstaffe and his business partner Abraham Waston Rutherford, although his will makes no reference to West India property.
Abolition connections
No known connections with abolition.
National Gallery painting connections
Donor: presented by Zachary in 1826: NG74.
Bibliography
History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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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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