Robert Heron of Stubton Hall, Grantham, 27 November 1765 - 29 May 1854. Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby, 1812-18 and Peterborough, 1819-47. Styled Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet 1805. AN ORIGINAL PRE 1840 FREE FRONT; BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY FREE FRANK PANEL.
London: Houses of Parliament, Pre 1840. Free franks are hand stamped British parliamentary mail, issued from the 1650s to 1840. The free franking privilege was removed from parliamentarians in 1840 when Rowland Hill's postal reforms brought the postage stamp into use. Free franking had been intended to allow MPs to..... More