Alexander Annesley

Annesley was a London solicitor and member of the Inner Temple. After many years' practice, by which he acquired a large fortune, he retired to Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and died there on 6 December 1813.^[1] He is buried in Great St Mary's, Sawbridgeworth, and there is a funerary hatchment and a wall monument to him there with 15 December given as the date of death.

Annesley was a man of many accomplishments, paid repeated visits to the continent, and was an enthusiastic sportsman. In politics he followed William Pitt.^[1]

His works are:^[1]

1. Strictures on the true Cause of the present alarming Scarcity of Grain and Provisions, and a Plan for permanent Relief, 1800. Annesley proposed ‘bounties on production rather than on importation, an excise on all grain, the establishment of public granaries and additional corn-mills.’
2. Observations on the Danger of a Premature Peace, 1800.
3. A Compendium of the Law of Marine Insurance, Bottomry, Insurance on Lives, and of Insurance against Fire, in which the mode of calculating averages is defined and illustrated by example, 1808

•   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Annesley, Alexander". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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