Lot 3430

Description

Royal Navy joint stock certificate, in Five per Cent Annuities, 3 December 1817, for one thousand and eighty nine pounds two shillings and one penny, in name of Robert Carr Brackenbury Esq & The Revd Edward Brackenbury. Small piece missing at top left corner, otherwise good very fine.

Robert Carr Brackenbury (1752-1818), was a Methodist Minister and although never officially ordained he was appointed by John Wesley to be part of the 'Legal Hundred', who advised Wesley and provided guidance on the appointment of ministers. Wesley held his good friend Brackenbury in very high regard. He died on 11 August 1818 less than a year after acquiring the above annuity. The relationship to Rev Edward Brackenbury is unknown because Robert Brackenbury had no children.