Christopher Codrington
Christopher Codrington is a British soldier and a colonial governor born in 1668 with Barbados with the the Antilles, dead the April 7th 1710.
Born from a father general captain of the Leeward Islands, its education was done with the church of Christ with Oxford. It was also useful in the army where it particicpa with the operation in Flandres. In 1674, Sir Christopher Codrington based the first large sugar plantation on the island of Antigua; the only village of Barbuda bears its name today. In 1685, Codrington and its family rented all the island with the British Crown for the moderate amount of “a large pig per annum if request is made”; they established sugar plantations successfully. At the beginning, the colonists made come from the farm laborers under contract in order to make them work with the colonies and after five years, these workmen were free to acquire and cultivate a ground with them. But this labor appeared insufficient. This is why Christopher Codrington and the other landowners made bring slaves of the west coast of Africa. With died of his/her father in 1697, it was in its turn named captain-general of Leeward Islands.
In 1703, it controlled the fallen through operation of the British in Guadeloupe. After this failure, he resigned of his station and devoted himself, for the remainder of his days, being studied of his old field, Barbados. He died on April 7th, 1710, bequeathing his fields to the company for the propagation of the Gospel.
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