Lestock Peach Wilson

Lestock Peach Wilson was a partner in the East India firm of Palmer, McKillop (q.v.) - who were mortgagees on Upper Latante in Grenada - and brother-in-law of Maria Edgeworth. He was the son of Lestock Wilson (q.v.), a captain for the East India Company who is described in online sources as 'founder of Palmer, Wilson & Company, a shipping company.'

1. Lestock Peach Wilson buried St John Hackney 22/07/1868 aged 80. The will of Lestock Peach Wilson of 37 Wigmore Street who died 17/07/1868 was proved 01/08/1868, effects under £8000 (resworn Sept. 1870 under £9000). A call for creditors of Lestock Peach Wilson late of 37 Wigmore Street who died 17/07/1868 was published in the London Gazette 22/12/1868.

Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Maria Edgeworth 04/02/1829, referenced in Lord Byron and his Times https://www.lordbyron.org/monograph.php?doc=JoLockh.Scott&select=VII.ch5.2 [accessed 16/07/2020]; Lestock Wilson, https://www.lordbyron.org/persRec.php?&selectPerson=LeWilso1821 [accessed 16/07/2020].  

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1868; London Gazette 22/12/1868 p. 6793.