Upton Country Park: Poole, Dorset

Andrew Bogle was born in Jamaica in the early 1800s and was enslaved on the Hope Estate, a sugar plantation in St Andrew’s, Jamaica. When he was 25, Bogle was taken to England by the estate manager, Edward Tichborne, who intended to employ the former slave. He became Tichborne’s valet and accompanied him on his European honeymoon, and then lived at Upton House with the family. In 1836, he married another servant in Canford Magna church, a nurse named Elizabeth Young, and they had two sons. Unfortunately, their marriage was short-lived when Elizabeth died in 1845. She was buried in the churchyard in Hamworthy, Poole.