Charles Horsfall

Early life Horsfall was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the son of Joseph Horsfield and Anna Hodgson, and was baptised at St Peter's Church, Huddersfield on 17 July 1776. Jamaica On 20 November 1792, aged 16, he sailed to Jamaica, where he established himself as a commodities trader. He was Bailiff of Liverpool in 1829 and then Mayor in 1832. He was an avid botanist, and his wife was a noted horticultural artist who contributed many plates to books and magazines of the time. His botanical passions were fuelled by his business trade connections with West Africa, the West Indies and the Americas. He was in partnership with another notable merchant family, the Tobins and also his cousins the Hodgsons, Jamaican plantation owners. He was a leading member of the Liverpool West India Association. == Slave ownership ==

An 1823 slave register indicates that, at the time, Horsfall owned 69 slaves. After the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, he was awarded compensation of just over £11,700 (), for slaves on the New Hope Estate in British Guiana and the Knowsley estate in Jamaica in his own right, and three others as an executor. == Death and legacy ==

He died on 18 June 1846 in Crosby, Sefton, of "senile decline after paralysis". He is buried in St George's Church, Everton. His estate was valued at £262,000 (). ==References==