John Pinney

John Pretor Pinney (1740 – 23 January 1818) was a plantation owner on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and was a sugar merchant in Bristol.

Azariah Pinney had been granted a pardon by James II for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion on the condition that he spent 10 years in the West Indies; he arrived in Nevis in 1682.

[2] When Pinney left Nevis to return to England with his family in 1783 he was worth about £70,000 (the equivalent of £8.5 million as of 2019, based on the percentage increase in the Retail Price Index from 1783 to 2019).

[7][1] On his return he settled in Bristol where he began a business partnership as a sugar merchant with James Tobin, the pro-slave trade campaigner.

[15][13] Pinney died in Bristol on 23 January 1818, and was buried in the family vault in the parish church at Somerton in Somerset.

In the Georgian House Museum is a list of the names of over 900 enslaved people owned by the Pinney family, many of whose biographies have been researched by Christine Eickelmann.