John Gladstone
John Gladstone was a Tory MP and significant plantation owner who claimed substantial compensation for the loss of enslaved workers following the abolition of slavery, reflecting the economic interests tied to the slave trade.
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The largest total payment to any individual was almost £110,000, the equivalent of £14.6m today, to John Gladstone, the Tory MP who claimed for 2,508 men, women and children enslaved on his plantations in Guiana and Jamaica.
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