George Hibbert

George Hibbert by [[Thomas Lawrence]], 1811 George Hibbert (13 January 1757 – 8 October 1837) was an English merchant, politician, slave-owner, ship-owner, amateur botanist and book collector. With Robert Milligan, he was also one of the principals of the West India Dock Company which instigated the construction of the West India Docks on London's Isle of Dogs in 1800. He also helped found the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1824. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The substance of three speeches in Parliament : on the bill for the abolition of the slave trade and on the petition respecting the state of the West-India trade in February and March, 1807 /
    by Hibbert, George, 1757-1837
    Published 1807
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    Correspondence between Mr. George Hibbert and the Society of Friends.
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    At a general court of proprietors of the West-India Dock Company, held at their house in Billiter square, on Friday the 5th January, 1810, George Hibbert, Esq. in the chair : the chairman read to the meeting a report from a committee of directors, on benefits resulting from the establishment to the public revenue, proprietors of produce, and others which was ordered to be printed, for use of the proprietors.
    Published 1810
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    Correspondence between George Hibbert, Esq., and the Rev. T. Cooper, relative to the condition of the Negro slaves in Jamaica, extracted from the Morning Chronicle : also, a libel on the character of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, published, in 1823, in several of the Jamaica journals, with notes and remarks /
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    To George Hibbert, Esq. one of the aldermen of the city of London : occasioned by his speech at the London Tavern on ... June 19, 1799, to the merchants of London, assembled by public advertisement, to take into consideration the compulsory clauses in a bill depending before Parliament, for making wet docks and other works at the Isle of Dogs /
    by Broker
    Published 1799
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