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Nicholas William Ridley-Colborne, Baron Colborne of West Harling

1839 - 1854

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

Biographical notes

Politician.

National Gallery Trustee (1831–1854).

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

A mild abolitionist, he was reported to be a ’staunch friend‘ of abolition of the slave trade in 1806. (Howard Spencer / Terry Jenkins, ’RIDLEY COLBORNE, Nicholas William (1779-1854), of West Harling, Norf.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1820-1832,<https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ridley-colborne-nicholas-1779-1854> accessed 5 August 2021.)

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: bequeathed in 1854: NG237–240, NG242–244, NG241 (transferred to Tate, N00241).

Bibliography

C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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B. Murphy, 'RIDLEY COLBORNE, Nicholas William (1779-1854), of West Harling, Norf.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1790-1820, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/ridley-colborne-nicholas-william-1779-1854
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H. Spencer and T. Jenkins, 'RIDLEY COLBORNE, Nicholas William (1779-1854), of West Harling, Norf.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ridley-colborne-nicholas-1779-1854
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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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