A RARE AUTOGRAPH TICKET TO JOIN THE FUNERAL PROCESSION AND SERVICE FOR LORD NELSON
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A RARE AUTOGRAPH TICKET TO JOIN THE FUNERAL PROCESSION AND SERVICE FOR LORD NELSON

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A RARE AUTOGRAPH TICKET TO JOIN THE FUNERAL PROCESSION AND SERVICE FOR LORD NELSON
shaded boarders and dark curtains with an trumpeting angel top centre, inscribed in print and manuscript FUNERAL of the late VICE ADMIRAL HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON. Admit Thomas Bolton Esq (Nephew of the late Viscount Nelson) into the Procesfion from the Admiralty to St. Paul's Cathedral. signed Isaac Heald Gaston and numbered 415 with black wax seal lower right, mounted on a card page with later faint pencillings stating My Fathers Ticket for the funeral [march?] and Thomas Bolton 2nd Earls ticket for the funeral; the reverse with ink line plan of Nelsons tomb with a later inscription to be added for Viscountess Nelson and her son in 1831, total measurements -- 8 x 11in. (20.3 x 28cm.)
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Thomas Bolton (1752-1834), was Lord Nelson's brother-in-law having married the Admiral's slightly older sister Susanna in 1780. He was a prosperous businessman trading in corn, malt and coal and he and Susanna lived at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. One of their six children, also named Thomas, had not only been chosen to act as Nelson's esquire at his installation as a Knight of the Bath at Westminster Abbey in May 1803 -- in the event, Nelson had to return to sea unexpectedly and the ceremony went ahead by proxy -- but, more importantly, eventually inherited the title of 2nd Earl Nelson, Nelson's own brother William having become the 1st Earl upon the death of the Admiral at Trafalgar.

Whilst it has not been confirmed, it is most likely that it was Thomas Bolton, Senior, Nelson's brother-in-law, who travelled up-river with the Admiral's funeral cortège even though it is possible that his nineteen year old son may also have been amongst the family representatives on the journey.

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