Description
Original Commission, signed upper left by Queen Victoria, appointing Thomas Peard Dwyer to be Adjutant in the Corps of Royal Marines. Countersigned by Rear Admiral Sir William Parker and Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, and by John Barrow as Secretary to the Admiralty. Vellum, 9 x 13 inches, Treasury stamp affixed. vertical folds, in good condition. Our Court at St. James’s, 28 February 1839. Major-General Thomas Peard Dwyer, Royal Marines, born Ireland 1798, died 1863., Commandant of Ascension Island, 1842–1844.