HARDY, Sir Thomas Masterman (1769-1839). Vice-admiral. Signature in ink from the foot of a ruled naval document, a little soiled an trimmed, laid down. The signature is beneath the words (in a clerk's hand) 'Given under my hand on b[oar]d the Victory the 5 of September 1805', i.e. the month before Trafalgar. [No: 23753]
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