Colonel of the Guards.
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Thursday, July 11, 1822; Issue 2978.
At Kingsbridge, on Tuesday the 2d instant, Mrs. Ann Pollexfen Prosser, after a very protracted and painful illness, in her 76th year, widow of the late Capt. Prossor, of the Plymouth Division of Marines, and last surviving child of John Drake, Esq. formerly Collector of Customs at Plymouth, lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, Bart. the first circumnavigator of the globe, and sister to Sir John Savery Drake, with whom the title became extinct, he dying without issue (and from whom the last Sir Francis cut off the entail of property given to his ancestor by Queen Elizabeth for his services and discoveries) and gave it to the late Lord Heathfield after him to Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Eliott Drake Bart. High-Sheriff of the county of Devon, who now enjoys it. Of eleven children, one daughter only survives her.
John Spicer Young 7th Regt. Native Infantry
Killed in the East Indies.
Captain in Plymouth Division of Royal Marines.
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Thursday, July 11, 1822; Issue 2978.
At Kingsbridge, on Tuesday the 2d instant, Mrs. Ann Pollexfen Prosser, after a very protracted and painful illness, in her 76th year, widow of the late Capt. Prossor, of the Plymouth Division of Marines, and last surviving child of John Drake, Esq. formerly Collector of Customs at Plymouth, lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake, Bart. the first circumnavigator of the globe, and sister to Sir John Savery Drake, with whom the title became extinct, he dying without issue (and from whom the last Sir Francis cut off the entail of property given to his ancestor by Queen Elizabeth for his services and discoveries) and gave it to the late Lord Heathfield after him to Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Eliott Drake Bart. High-Sheriff of the county of Devon, who now enjoys it. Of eleven children, one daughter only survives her.
Justice of Peace of Kellaton, Devon.