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Banker, poet and collector.

ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Trustee (1834–1855).

No known connections with slavery.

Author of the narrative poem The Voyage of Columbus (1809–12). Rogers was among a group of poets whose polemic ‘centred on a demand for the reform of the East India Company … and the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade’. (Nigel Leask, British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, Cambridge, 2004, 25.)

R. Garnett and P. Baines, 'Rogers, Samue', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-,
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-,
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G. A. Malpass, 'Rogers, Samuel', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-,
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020,
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