Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island country that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean. It is situated south of Grenada off the northern edge of the South American mainland, off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. The island of Trinidad was a Spanish colony from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1498 until Spanish governor Don José María Chacón
Philip John Miles his wife Sarah Berrow. His elder brother William died in 1790, and he inherited from his financier father in 1803. Miles was a partner in Miles Bank of Bristol, and later Miles, Harford & Co, which eventually became part of NatWest. He had Leigh Court at Abbots Leigh rebuilt, 1814–8. He sat three times as a Member of Parliament, for from 1826, for from 1829, and for from 1835. Under the Slave Compensation Act 1837 he received money from properties in Jamaica and Trinidad. Miles died on 24 March 1845. Miles married: From the first marriage there was one son