Individual Details

Lt Col Nicholas Rice CALLENDER

(Abt 1780 - 25 Jun 1816)

Events

BirthAbt 1780
Education23 Jun 1798and matriculated - Oreil College, Oxford
Death25 Jun 1816Hopefield Manor, Christ Church, Barbados
Occupationslave owner - Barbados, West Indies
Militarywith the St Phillip's Battalion of Militia - Barbados

Families

SpouseMary Jane GASKIN (1784 - )
ChildAlice Rice CALLENDER (1812 - )
ChildRev Nicholas Rice CALLENDER BA (1810 - 1836)

Notes

Death

He was killed when rebels burnt his plantation on the way to the battle of Lowthers. The only slave revolt in the history of Barbados took place on Easter Sunday 1816. It being historic and known for what it accomplished and what it did not accomplish, it was named the Bussa’ Revolution. It had been planned and led, at least in the folk tradition, by Bussa, an African born man, slave and head driver at Bayley’s Plantation in St. Phillip’s Parish. 25 percent of the island sugar canes were burnt, a little short of 1,000 blacks were killed, or taken captive and executed, in battles at Lowther’s, Bayley’s, Thicket, Golden Grove and Sandford’s plantation. Originating in the eastern part of the St. Phillip Parish, the rebellion soon spread to the parishes of Christ Church, St. John, St. George and St. Thomas .