AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BRITISH ARMY GEORGIAN HANOVERIAN REGENCY MILITARY HISTORY EMPIRE COLONIES COLONIAL LIEUTENANT GENERAL GEORGE DON GOVERNOR GIBRALTAR JERSEY COURT MARTIAL

[General Sir George Don, as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.] Autograph Signature ('Geo. Don / Genl & Lt Govr') to part of a document regarding 'clemency'; with part of another document, relating to a Gibraltar court martial.

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Sir George Don (1756-1832), British general and successively Lieutenant Governor of Jersey and Governor of Gibraltar
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First document: no place or date. Second document: Gibraltar, 25 February 1831.
£85.00
Don

See Don's entry in the Oxford DNB. He was Lieutenant Governor of Jersey between 1806 and 1814, and acting Governor of Gibraltar, 1814-1821 and 1825-1831. The two items are on different paper stock, but both relate to Don, and may be related. (While Don was acting Governor of Gibraltar, he is described as 'His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor' in the second item.) ONE: On one side of an 18.5 x 7.5 cm piece of laid paper. In good condition, with three folds and small pin-holes to one corner.

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