 Sir Pulteney Malcolm also commanded HMS Royal Oak as Captain of the ship.During the 18th & 19th century the Malcolm family greatly increased their wealth due to their activities in slave trading and their ownership of plantations in Jamaica redeploying their slave-derived wealth in agrarian improvement and infrastructure in Britain.The records show that Neill Malcolm the 12th, owned more than 2000 enslaved people on 11 separate plantations  The 12th Laird opposed Abolition and claimed thousands (millions of pounds in 'today' money,  in compensation for the loss of his slaves in 1834 from the Slave Compensation Commission.