Roger Hope Elletson (1727—28 November 1775, Bath) was a Jamaican planter.
Early life
Roger was the younger son of Richard and Susanna Elletson. The family owned the Hope Estate near Kingston, one of the first sugar plantations in Jamaica.
He was educated at Eton College and went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1746.
Planter and politician
Roger Hope Elletson returned to Jamaica and is recorded as the owner of an estate called "Merrymans Hill" in St Andrew, Jamaica, which spanned 600 acres. By 1753, he "owned" 93 enslaved people.
In the 1760s his brother and his mother died, leaving him in possession of the Hope Estate.
