Banker, poet and collector.
National Gallery Trustee (1834–1855).
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Banker, poet and collector.
National Gallery Trustee (1834–1855).
No known connections with slavery.
Author of the narrative poem The Voyage of Columbus (1809–12). Rogers was among a group of poets whose polemic ‘centred on a demand for the reform of the East India Company … and the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade’. (Nigel Leask, British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, Cambridge, 2004, 25.)
R. Garnett and P. Baines, 'Rogers, Samue', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23997
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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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G. A. Malpass, 'Rogers, Samuel', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T072715
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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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