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1. Son of William Wylly (q.v.) of Bahamas and St.Vincent (1757-1828) . Admitted Trinity College, Oxford, 20/10/1806, aged 18; Middle Temple, 1811.

2. Appointed Puisne Judge, Trinidad, 1846.

3. Died, Port of Spain, 29/01/1848. A newspaper notice gives his death age 65 though his Oxford admission would give an age of 60 at death.

4. Father of: Thomas B Wylly (died, Demerera, 2/8/1857); Susan Catherine Wylly (married William Cree, merchant, at Trinidad, 1846) and Matilda F. M. Wylly (died, Vancouver, 1904, aged 82).

5. He was Solicitor-General of the Bahamas, domiciled at New Providence, in 1826. Owner then of 16 enslaved people, "13 domestics; three have the care of a small county residence; but Mr. Wylly neither owns nor manages any plantation." Also attorney of his father William Wylly as owner of one enslaved blacksmith and one enslaved shipwright.

1. 911±¬ÁÏÍø Oxonienses, and see Times of the Isles - All the King’s Men (article by Dr Charlotte Kozy, 2010, A href="https://www.timespub.tc/2010/10/all-the-kings-men/">https://www.timespub.tc/2010/10/all-the-kings-men/ [accessed 14/12/2018]), paragraph concerning Wylly brothers William and Alexander.

2. Bath Chronicle, 22/01/1846.

3. Morning Chronicle, 14/03/1848.

4. Glasgow Herald, 02/08/1857; Greenock Advertiser, 23/11/1846; Victoria Times, 13/01/1904 (at familysearch.org).

5. Papers Relating to Slaves in the Colonies, Vol.XXII, 'Return of Functionaries who are Proprietors of Slaves or Plantations worked by Slaves', p. 6 (Munnings to Bathurst, July 1826).

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.