where Paice had been one of the congregation. Paice's heir was his ward Frederick Gibson, who became principal customs surveyor of London Docks. Lucas legacy Paice was involved in the estate of the merchant Thomas Lucas, who died in 1784. The residuary heir was Thomas Lucas Wheeler. Lucas was a sugar factor in London, owning English property and a slave-run plantation in St Kitts. The plantation, subject to annuities, was left in trust, Paice being one of the trustees. Wheeler then died in 1792. Under his will and codicil, the English property passed to Paice, and also the plantation, of which Paice gave a half-share to John Beach, another of the trustees, who died in 1796. There were further legal moves from 1789, including leasing Lee Manor House which had belonged to Lucas to John Call, and making Paice residual legatee of Eliza, widow of Lucas, who by then was married to John Julius Angerstein; she died in 1800. Gibson connections Thomas Lucas Wheeler and Paice's heir Frederick Gibson married sisters, daughters of Edward Whatmore of Marshwood House, Wiltshire. Gibson's daughter Joan Whatmore Gibson married William Oke Manning (1778–1859) and was mother of the novelist Anne Manning. Frederick's sister Mary married Thomas Malleson (died 1820), ran a school in Chelsea, and was mother of the Unitarian minister John Philip Malleson (1796–1869). Anne Manning came into possession of original correspondence of Paice, and published some details in the 1840s. He sold some of the enslaved people from his plantations, through Nathaniel Stewart of Tobago, asking that lower prices be accepted so that they might go to more humane owners. Thomas Lucas Wheeler's widow Betty married again, in 1793; but Paice was concerned to make the property Wheeler had left her freehold. Nathaniel Mason Anne Manning wrote also that Paice was disappointed in love, by a Miss Hunt of Ewell; she married his cousin Nathaniel Mason, Paice having decided not to press his suit. In the aftermath Paice supported Mason financially, but Mason failed and eventually left the country. The background is that Miss Hunt was Ann or Annie Hunt, daughter of Thomas Hunt of Ewell. Christie's sold in 1933 a portrait Mrs. Nathaniel Mason (née Annie Hunt), attributed to Thomas Gainsborough. Her brother Thomas Hunt the younger of Ewell (died 1784) matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1737; their father was Thomas Hunt of Stourbridge. The elder Thomas Hunt was High