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• Harryhausen, Ray
  American-British animator and special effects creator in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Harryhausen produced the statue of David Livingstone in Blantyre alongside Irish artist Gareth Knowles.
• Hartwell, Charles Leonard
  English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the memorial to Admiral Arthur Phillip in London, the Boer War memorial in Brighton, and the statue of Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker in Perak, Malaysia.
• Havelock, Henry
  British Army general in the nineteenth century who fought in Burma, Afghanistan, Iran and India.
• Hébert, Pierre
  French sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Hems, Harry
  British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Herbert, George, 13th Earl of Pembroke
  Under-Secretary of State for War (1874-1875)
• Herbert, Sidney, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
  Secretary of State for the Colonies (1855) and Secretary of State for War (1859-1861).
• Herriot, Alan Beattie
  Scottish sculptor
• Heywood, Oliver
  British banker in the nineteenth century. The Heywoods family had investments in the transatlantic slave-trade.
• Hibbert, George
  West Indian slave-owner, merchant, collector and philanthropist in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hibbert was one of the founding figures behind the West India Docks in London as well as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
• Hill, Rowland, 2nd Viscount Hill
  British politician in the nineteenth century.
• Hillary, William
  British absentee slave-owner in Jamaica and philanthropist in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hillary was the founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1824. Hillary's connections to figures across Britain’s maritime imperial economy, including politicians, merchants, slave-traders and slave-owners, were important in securing the financial backing needed for the creation of the charity. Some of the charity’s first patrons included figures such as George Hibbert who owed their riches to British slavery.
• Hogg, Alice
  Alice Anna Hogg (née Graham), born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1846, was the daughter of William Graham (1817-1885), a Scottish politician, East India merchant, cotton manufacturer, and port shipper. In 1871, she married Quintin Hogg (1845-1903), who was a colonial merchant and philanthropist involved in sugar production in British Guiana.
• Hogg, Quintin
  British colonial merchant and philanthropist in the nineteenth century. Hogg was the seventh son of James Weir Hogg (1790–1876), who was twice Chairman of the East India Company. He was also the brother-in-law of Charles McGarel (1788 - 1876), a former slave-owner in British Guiana, through his sister Mary Hogg (1829 - 1913). In 1864, Hogg entered McGarel's sugar merchant firm of Bosanquet, Curtis & Co. and was involved in managing colonial sugar production in Demerara, British Guiana.
• Holland, Sam
  British sculptor
• Hollins, Peter
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Holloway, Jane
  British businesswoman, philanthropist, and the inspiration behind the founding of a women's college at Royal Holloway in London in the nineteenth century.
• Holloway, Thomas
  British patent medicine vendor and philanthropist in the nineteenth century.
• Hook, Walter Farquhar
  English cleric and Dean of Chichester. Hook's maternal grandfather, Sir Walter Farquhar MD (1738 - 1819), has been tentatively identified as an absentee slave-owner of estates in Jamaica by Legacies of British Slavery.
• Hope, John, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
  British Army officer in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hope was involved in the suppression of Fédon's rebellion in Grenada in 1796, as well as the British capture of the French and Spanish West Indies. His son John Hope, 5th Earl of Hopetoun (1803-1843) unsuccessfully tried to claim slavery compensation as executor of the Blackness estate in Jamaica.
• Houdon, Jean-Antoine
  French sculptor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• Hughes, John
  Irish sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Hughes, Thomas
  English lawyer, judge, politician and author in the nineteenth century. Hughes's novel Tom Brown’s School Days (1857), a recollection of his time at Rugby and the experience of young men in the world of the British public school, was one of the foundational works of the Muscular Christianity philosophical movement. The emphasis Muscular Christianity placed on the importance of physical exercise and Christian instruction was highly influential to the culture of public schools in the Victorian era, many of whom would train young men for future colonial service overseas.
• Hugo, Victor
  Victor Hugo is one of the most famous French writers, a leading figure of the romantic movement, born in Besançon on February 26, 1802. Author of Bug-Jargal (1826), The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829), The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Les Misérables (1862), he was also engaged in politics as a royalist and conservative under the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, and then as a progressive republican under the Third Republic. He spoke out against slavery, the death penalty, poverty, the repression of the Paris Commune, but also in favor of the colonisation of Africa by France in a speech in 1879. He died in Paris on May 22, 1885.
• Hugoulin, Emile
  French sculptor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Huskisson, William
  President of the Board of Trade (1823-1827) and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (1827-1828).
• Huxley-Jones, Thomas Bayliss
  British sculptor born in South Africa and active in the twentieth century.
• ibn Muhieddine, Abdelkader
  Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine was born in El Guettana, near Mascara in Algeria, on September 6, 1808. Coming from a family of scholars, he excelled in his studies. French troops took Algiers in 1830 and arrived in Oran in 1831. Abd el Kader and his father participated in the first battles against the invasion. In 1832, Abd el Kader was named sultan by the western tribes, and took on the title of emir. He established himself as an essential interlocutor of the French army and negotiated treaties through which he increased his influence in Algeria. As France's strategy and objectives in Algeria changed during the 1830s, Abd el Kader became a target, due to his resistance to French colonization. Marshal Bugeaud conquered his original town of Mascara in 1841. After a period in Morocco, Abd el Kader defeated the French army at the Battle of Sidi-Brahim in 1845. In 1847, Abd el Kader surrendered to the French army , to General Louis de Lamoricière, and negotiated his exile in Islamic territories. The French government went back on this clause, and imprisoned Abd el Kader and his entourage in France: in Toulon, Pau, and finally in Amboise, from 1848 to 1852. Twenty-seven members of his entourage died in Amboise during their captivity. Abd el Kader was released by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1852, on condition that he took an oath to abandon his anti-colonial struggle in Algeria. Abd el Kader then left for Turkey and then Syria, where he distinguished himself as a defender of religious peace and through his philosophical writings. He died in Damascus on May 26, 1883. His memory was used differently by different regimes, sometimes to justify French colonization with the image of a sovereign accepting his defeat, sometimes to build a national narrative of Algerian unity after the country’s independence.
• Ignace, Joseph
  French Republican officer in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who was opposed to Napoleon Bonaparte's restoration of slavery.
• Ingram, Herbert
  British politician, journalist, and the founder of The Illustrated London News, which covered a number of events throughout the British Empire during the nineteenth century and beyond.
• Ingram, Walter Rowlands
  British sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Iqbal Wahhab
  Bangladeshi-British businessman and community heritage activist
• Isaacs, Rufus, 1st Marquess of Reading
  Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1921-1926).
• Iyapo, Bandele
• Jackson, Philip
  Scottish sculptor
• Jagger, Charles Sargeant
  British sculptor active in the twentieth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statues of Charles Hardinge and King George V in New Delhi, both of which are now located in Coronation Park, and the statue of Rufus Isaacs, which was repatriated to the UK in 1969 and re-erected in 1971.
• James II
  King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688. James II was governor of the Royal African Company and its largest shareholder.
• James MacArdell
  Irish engraver and printmaker in the eighteenth century.
• Jefferson, Thomas
  American politician, slave-owner, principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Between 1785 and 1789, Jefferson replaced Benjamin Franklin as United States Ambassador to France. Even though he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”, Thomas Jefferson enslaved more than 600 people during his life. DNA analysis confirmed that he had several children with Sally Hemings, one of his enslaved servants, whom he never recognized during his lifetime, but who were the only enslaved people he ever freed.
• Jennings, Martin
  British sculptor
• Jenrick, Robert
  Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (July 2019-September 2021)
• Jerningham, Annie
  British philanthropist in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her first husband was Charles Mather of Longridge Towers, Berwick-upon-Tweed. She later remarried to Hubert Jerningham (1842-1914), a British colonial administrator. The origins of Charles Mather's wealth are unclear at present. Legacies of British Slavery has recorded a slavery compensation claim from a James Mather of South Shields (1799-1873), but there is no evidence currently connecting Charles to this family.
• Jerningham, Hubert
  British politician and colonial administrator in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jerningham was Governor of Mauritius from 1892 to 1897 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago from 1897 to 1900. His great-grandfather was Nathaniel Middleton (1750–1807), an East Indian Company civil servant, who married Ann Frances Morse (1758–1823), who was the mixed-race daughter of Jamaican slave-owner and attorney John Morse (died 1781).
• Joffre, Joseph
  French military general who fought in Indochina, North Africa and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• John, Augustus
  Welsh painter in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• John, William Goscombe
  Welsh sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the equestrian statue of Garnet Wolseley in London, the equestrian statue of Gilbert Elliot Murray in Barrackpore, and the equestrian statue of Stanley Maude in Baghdad, the latter of which was toppled by Iraqi protestors in the late 1950s.
• Johnson, Boris
  Prime Minster of the United Kingdom (2019-2022)
• Jones, Adrian
  British painter, sculptor and military veterinarian. Between 1867 and 1890, Jones served in several colonial conflicts in Ethiopia, Ireland, South Africa and Egypt.
• Jones, Alfred Lewis
  Welsh colonial businessman and ship-owner in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During his life, Jones achieved a dominant position in the colonial shipping trade, as well as accruing many other landholdings and business investments. His career started, aged twelve, as an apprentice in the African Steamship Company in Liverpool in 1857. Jones had become a manager of the company in 1871 and began to expand his colonial investments in West Africa, particularly through his work with Elder, Dempster & Co.. By the 1890s, Jones had secured a vast business portfolio in the region, including shipping, landholdings, banking, and mining. He founded the Bank of British West Africa and the Liverpool Institute of Tropical Medicine in this period. Jones also opened up new commercial connections between West Africa and the Caribbean, serving as the inaugural President of the British Cotton Growing Association from 1902. Jones' colonial wealth was achieved through considerable violence, cruelty, and labour exploitation in Africa, as his close relationship to King Leopold II exemplifies. In 1891, for instance, Jones sponsored May French Sheldon to take a company trip to the Congo in order to downplay the extensive human rights abuses that were taking place in the colony.
• Jones, Francis William Doyle
  British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.