 The British Government took out a £15 million loan (worth £ in 2020) with interest from Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Montefiore which was subsequently paid off by the British taxpayers (ending in 2015).Reid was associated with seventeen different claims, he owned over 500 slaves in British Guiana, Jamaica, St Kitts, Trinidad and the British Virgin Islands.He received a large sum of money from this claims.