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    The Luxborough Galley was an English ship owned by the South Sea Company which in 1727 burnt, exploded and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Twelve of the crew...
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    reportedly practised cannibalism. The accounts of the sinking of the Luxborough Galley in 1727 reported cannibalism among the survivors during their two...
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    The loss of the slave ship Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the triangular trade, between the Caribbean and Britain....
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    Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough (née St John; 15 July 1699 — 26 March 1756), was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener...
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    parlour of one of the survivors of the Luxborough Galley, was repeated in The Loss of the 'Luxborough' Galley in 1727 and the Escape of Some of her Crew...
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  • 613). In 1787 Boys published an account of the survivors of the Luxborough Galley, a case of cannibalism, in which his father (Commodore Boys) had been...
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    Frederick. In June 1725 he was on board the South Sea Company slaver Luxborough Galley when the ship sunk following a fire and the six survivors only survived...
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    The loss of the slave ship Luxborough Galley in 1727 ("I.C. 1760"), lost in the last leg of the triangular trade, between the Caribbean and Britain....
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    in their father's lifetime) and one daughter, Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough. The surviving son was John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, father of Frederick...
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  • of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull (d. 1757) Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener (d...
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