He had an exciting career, which he was involved in describing, as the "admiral of Hayti" working for Henri Christophe in the struggle for independence.

He hired William Garrow to successfully sue his lawyer for taking his money and his wife.

He was bound to be a lawyer but he ran away to sea at the age of thirteen to the caribbean.

He wrote a play and married Charlotte Goodall in 1787 after seeing her appear in Bath.

The 22-page document was sub-titled "The Love-Sick Lawyer" and it recorded the circumstances, the witnesses and the £5,000 verdict won by Goodall's barrister Sir William Garrow.