The most famous personage of that ilk was Edward Alleyn (1566-1626), a contemporary of Shakespeare who built and endowed Dulwich College (now in South London) in 1613-1616 with the fortune he amassed as an actor-manager and businessman. Camille Pissarro (born in St Thomas on 10 July 1830) painted the new college buildings in 1871 shortly after they were completed, while living in a nearby.district which is now home to a large number of Afro-Caribbeans. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Pissarro> I recently came across a photograph and brief biography of Ivan Owen Belgrave Shirley, whose grandmother had been a very successful trader during the building of the Panama Canal. After he had attended Wolmer's School in Kingston, she sent him on to Dulwich College in 1911, because RK Nunes (later a Windies' captain) had recently gone there. Several of his descendants are now themselves Old Alleynians., as Dulwich "old boys' are called Peter Moll Tortola, BVI Nivard Ovington wrote 3 Sep 2010: > Hi Ernest > > I don't know if you have Ancestry but I notice there are 95 ALLEYN(E) in the > recently released Probate Indexes 1861 to 1941 > > Plus a further 112 with Alleyn(e) as a first name > > Including the strikingly named > > Name: Arthur Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle > Probate Date: 2 Sep 1932 > Death Date: 28 Oct 1918 > Death Place: Middlesex, England > Registry: London > > (first probated in 1919) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)