Signed free franked address panel Thomas Hastings M.P and Waterloo veteran 1834

DAVIES, Colonel Thomas Henry Hastings (1789-1846). Free-franked autograph address panel signed from the M.P and Waterloo veteran, Pershore, 4 September 1834.

A single address panel, with uneven edges, light age toning and scattered spotting and marking. Addressed to Mrs John Webb, Sutton, Surrey, signed "T H Davies" at the lower left, with manuscript place and date above. Bearing a red crowned FREE postal handstamp dated 4 September 1834 and a partial black postal marking at the upper right. The address panel only. Good.

Thomas Henry Hastings Davies was a British soldier and parliamentary reformer who served with the 1st Foot Guards, subsequently the Grenadier Guards, at the Battle of Waterloo. MP for Worcester from 1818 to 1835 and again from 1837 to 1841, he criticised excessive military expenditure and promoted the 1828 legislation limiting election polls to eight days and providing additional polling places.