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Henry Burke (politician)

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Henry Burke (died 1827) was the owner of the Silver Mount estate in Portland Parish, Jamaica.[1] He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.[2] A monument to him exists in Christ Church, Port Antonio.[3]

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  1. ^ Henry Burke. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  2. ^ Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. London: Hurst and Robinson & E. Lloyd. p. 13.
  3. ^ Coutu, Joan. (2006). Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-7735-7664-3.
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