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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3035

Historical Documents
Jonas Hanway
1773 (30 August) certificate of account that the purser of H.M.S. Pallas, " ... appears to be Creditor in this Office for Victualing the said ship's Company ...", from the Victulaling Office, London and signed "Jonas Hanway". Light paper ageing. Photo

Jonas Hanway (1712 – 1786), an English traveller and philanthropist, was born at Portsmouth. He was the first Londoner, it is said, to carry an umbrella, and he lived to triumph over all the hackney coachmen who tried to hoot and hustle him down. This contemporary caricature attempts to show some of the reactions he provoked.

HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served until her loss in 1783.




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