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On Barbuda's Low Bay, we eat breakfast at the top of the \"lighthouse\" - an open-sided, two-storey tower plonked in the middle of our resort - admiring the 360-degree view of the Caribbean. A frigate bird passes, but otherwise there's nothing in sight. At night, we return for cocktails. This time there are stars by the million above us, but we feel as if we're the only people on Earth. \"Look, there's Jupiter!\" says Mo, the hotel manager, as if greeting an old friend. Son of a master mariner, he points his telescope at the inky sky, a mass of stellar wonder. The only way to reach tiny Barbuda, 27 miles north of Antigua, is via the larger island. We took a 15-minute flight then approached Lighthouse Bay by pontoon across the lagoon - the Caribbean's largest - but we could have arrived in style on the hotel's private helicopter, which promises to have guests on the carefully raked beach in under an hour from landing at Antigua's international airport. The town is named after Sir Christopher Codrington, who leased the entire island from the British Crown in 1691. It remained in the family's hands until 1872. While sugar cane was the livelihood in Antigua, poor soil and an annual rainfall of around 38 inches made sugar cultivation impossible on the island. Therefore, Sir Christopher introduced cattle, and deer, wild boar and guinea fowl for hunting. Over a home-made chicken lunch cooked by Jackie, the owner of Wa'Omoni's Best, one of Barbuda's best-known local restaurants, I learn that hunting is still a perfectly acceptable pastime here.

Sir [Christopher Codrington] also left his mark on Gloucestershire, where his name was used to create the Codrington community. It is there that the Dean and Chapter House is for sale for pounds1.75 million. Today, almost 100 of these picturesque stone towers remain, although they now serve as houses, bars, restaurants and shops. At Betty's Hope, Codrington's original sugar estate, visitors can see a fully-restored sugar mill. Sir Christopher, who became first Governor of the Leeward Islands was granted (with his brother John) leases to land on this near neighbour of Antigua. They became the island's pre-eminent family, and for much of the 18th century the Codrington land on Barbuda was used to produce food and to supply additional slave labour for the Codrington sugar plantations on neighbouring Antigua.

Mrs [Muriel Williams] said she believed [Alexander Codrington] may have borrowed the shotgun from his father. Sir [Christopher Codrington] regularly joins local shooting parties and took Alexander with him, she said. An inquest into the death will be resumed after the IPCC investigation. Last night, in a statement, Alexander's family said: \"Our loving son, devoted and kind-hearted brother, Alexander, died tragically in the early hours of Friday July 30 2010, aged 16. Tribute: Sir Christopher Codrington's family paid tribute to a 'wonderful' boy; Alexander Codrington is thought to have borrowed a shotgun from his father

Mrs [Muriel Williams] said she believed [Alexander Codrington] may have borrowed the shotgun from his father. Sir [Christopher Codrington] regularly joins local shooting parties and took Alexander with him, she said. An inquest into the death will be resumed after the IPCC investigation. Last night, in a statement, Alexander's family said: \"Our loving son, devoted and kind-hearted brother, Alexander, died tragically in the early hours of Friday July 30 2010, aged 16. Tribute: Sir Christopher Codrington's family paid tribute to a 'wonderful' boy; Alexander Codrington is thought to have borrowed a shotgun from his father

There isn't much to the history of Barbuda, but what there is, is somewhat bizarre. So much so, in fact, that few islanders, understandably, want to talk about it. It involves an early governor of the Leeward Islands, Col. Christopher Codrington, who was given the island outright in 1691 by the British Crown and who used it in part as a human stud farm to produce tall, strong slaves to work his own cane fields and for sale to other planters. He bought the strongest and tallest men he could find and brought in boatloads of docile women and told them to get to work and produce babies. Barbuda is not geared for tourism even on a modest scale. Two hotels (one open only during the winter season) and a small complex of villas, efficiencies and a cottage provide the only accommodation. The hotel that is open only in winter is the well- known and pricey Coco Point Lodge, where Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden spent part of their honeymoon. Strangely, it is the only place you can lodge that faces on to a beach. Day tours of Barbuda can be arranged out of Antigua through travel agents on the parent island - Barbuda Tours Limited, telephone 24318 (when calling from Canada 1-809-462-4318) or Wadadli Travel and Tours, 24489 and 21144 (from Canada 1-809-462-4489 and 1- 809-462-1144).