Christopher Codrington willed his Barbados plantations to a Church of England missionary society, which held enslaved people on them from 1710 to 1836

Christopher Codrington was born in Barbados in 1668 and became captain-general of the Leeward Islands in 1697 on his father's death. He died on 7 April 1710. His will left £10,000 and books worth £6,000 to All Souls College, Oxford, for a library. It left his two Barbados plantations to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Church of England's missionary society, to found a college. Legal challenges delayed the college, which was built between 1714 and 1742 and was at first open only to white students. The Society's successor, USPG, states that it benefited from the labour of enslaved people on the Codrington estate from 1710 to 1836, calls this "utterly disgraceful" and apologises without reservation. After emancipation the Society made grants of £85,000 and launched an £80,000 fund. In late 2020 All Souls stopped using Codrington's name for its library, kept his 1734 marble statue, put up a plaque to the people enslaved on his plantations, and pledged £100,000 to Codrington College. On 8 September 2023 USPG and the Codrington Trust launched a reparations project. Codrington College is now an Anglican theological school in the University of the West Indies.