Richard Boger was born in July 1749 at St Germans into a Cornish landed gentry family seated at Wolsdon House.

When Maria née Carpenter died, Richard remarried a Mary Drake in Plymouth, although she would bear no children for him.

However, having been a great favourite of the crew, he was treated well for a prisoner, with his wife Mary and daughter Maria, receiving two delegates every day.

He was subsequently paraded around the dock and Stonehouse, with one family member describing: "I shall never forget our old relative Admiral Boger, in an open carriage drawn by four horses, exposed to a scorching sun in the middle of a very hot July, without a hat, but with his hair fully dressed and powdered, and in his full uniform, with a face as red as scarlet from heat and excitement.

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