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has biography | a une biographie
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Scottish slave-owner and merchant in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Milligan was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1746 to an inkeeper, although secondary sources suggest he may have grown up on his family's plantations in Jamaica. He was resident in the colony roughly between 1768 and 1779, where he worked as a merchant and slave-factor in partnership with James Dick of Kingston. After settling in London from the 1780s onwards, Milligan became a merchant in two London firms, Milligan and Allen and Milligan and Mitchell, by 1794. Milligan & Mitchell had interests in the Golden Vale estate in Jamaica, while two additional estates, Kellet's and Mammee Gully, were also listed as the property of Robert Milligan.
Firmly established in London's West India circles as a member of the Society of West India Planters and Merchants, Milligan spearheaded the development of the West India Docks in the final years of the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth, serving as deputy chairman and chairman of the West India Dock Company.
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was born | est né
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19 August 1746
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died in | est mort par
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21 May 1809
Hibbert, George
Statue of Robert Milligan