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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 877

Autographs
Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville
1802 (5 January) A.L.S. from Brighton to the Post Office, a complaint that his Free Franks were not being recognised, " ... I have now only to require that my Letters may not be charged as there is scarce a day that I am not under the necessity of returning several Covers, an inconvenience which I have experienced for some years, & which seems to increase." and includes an incident when a letter containing bills worth several thousand pounds was received in a very damaged state, and is signed "Tankerville". An interesting insight into some of the problems with the Free Frank service

Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville (1743 – 1822) styled Lord Ossulston from 1753 to 1767, was a British nobleman, a collector of shells and a famous patron of Surrey cricket in the 1770s. He agreed a set of cricket rules that included the first mention of the Leg before wicket rule

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