According to the History of Parliament, he opposed the Slave Trade Act 1788 to regulate the shipment of enslaved people to the West Indies, "where he owned estates".
[2] Her first husband was Roger Hope Elletson (1723-1775), an Old Etonian who grew sugar on Jamaica and who also served as Lieutenant Governor of the island.
The "Chandos inheritance" received by Anna's grandson Richard included £6,630 compensation for the loss of the slaves on the estate.
They had one child who survived to adulthood, Lady Anne Elizabeth Brydges (born 1779).1 In 1789, the Duke died from injuries received when his wife inadvertently moved the chair he was about to sit in.
[7] In 2015, Anna's ownership of a sugar plantation and her involvement in running it was discussed in a television programme, Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners, broadcast by the BBC.