The following is an overview of some of the slave drivers that got huge slavery abolishment payments from the British government, whose legacy lives on through their descendants. Many members of these families were later installed as Knight in the Order of the Garter (KG).
About one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived (part of) their fortunes from the slave economy.
One of Britain's earliest bankster families, the Barings, got slave compensation (Alexander Baring KG in 1969, followed by 3 other Barings).
Also the second Earl of Harewood, Henry Lascelles, an ancestor of Queen Eliabeth II's cousin and KG since 1922, received £26,309 pounds for 2,554 slaves.
John Gladstone received a whopping £106,769 (equivalent to £83 million in 2013).
John was the father of 19th-century prime minister William Gladstone, who was directly involved in his father's claim. His great-grandson, also William Gladstone, became a KG in 1999.
The ancestors of former minister Douglas Hogg, whose son Quintin Hogg became a KG in 1988, got huge compensation payments.
The Hogg dynasty are descendants of Charles McGarel, who made a fortune from slave ownership. From 1835 to 1837, he received an astounding £129,464 for his 2,489 slaves (comparable to £101 million in 2013 money).
Also ancestors of ... received slave compensation payments.
Former PM David Cameron (high nobility Bullingdon boy, who is a favourite to become KG),
Famous authors Graham Greene and George Orwell:
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