John Ayscough

John Ayscough (died 1735) was Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1724.^[1]

Ayscough also served as Acting Governor of the Colony of Jamaica from 1726-8 and 1734-5, when the island was embroiled in fighting the Maroons in the First Maroon War. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to subdue the Jamaican Maroons. He died in 1735, during his second term as acting governor.^[2]

References

^ Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix.
^ Carey, Bev (1997). The Maroon Story: The Authentic and Original History of the Maroons in the History of Jamaica 1490–1880. Kingston, Jamaica: Agouti Press, pp. 257-314.

Chief Justices of Jamaica

Colony of Jamaica	Ward Mitchell Lynch White Modyford Long Byndloss Bernard Noell Elletson Bernard Lloyd Lawes Beckford Walters Heywood Ayscough Pennant Mill Hay Ellis Gregory Kelly Nedham Guy Palmer Fuller Fearon Ellis Beach Haywood Webley Welch French Grant Harrison Jackson Henckel Kirby Lewis Jackson Scarlett Rowe Edwards Smith Ellis Burford-Hancock Clarke Coll de Freitas Branch de Freitas Barrett-Lennard Lyall-Grant Furness Hearne O'Connor MacGregor
Jamaica	Phillips Lewis Duffus Smith Zacca Wolfe McCalla Sykes

Colony of Jamaica