Draft Power of attorney to receive prize money

Reference Number: BC/3/2/53/14
Level of Description: Item
Title: Draft Power of attorney to receive prize money
Date: 15 Jun 1815
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: 1. Frances Tuson of Oakhill, Shepton Mallett, Somerset, widow
2. Captain Francis Edward Seymour, 82 Crawford Street, Montague Square, Middlesex, captain in the Royal Navy
1 made 2 attorney for the recovery of treasure or prize money from the Royal Navy on behalf of her son Edward Seymour Bovet, a midshipman on HMS Modeste (crossed out and added as Thisbe), who died aged 20. According to a note in The Gentleman's Magazine (1836), Frances Tuson was the mother of George Philip (Junior?)'s wife.