The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Bacon, K.
In this despatch, Bacon relays Peel's concerns regarding the pension of Michael Kelcher to Barnard. Bacon was an esquire to Secretary Major General Jonathan Peel, who was Secretary of State for War at the British War Office. Bacon served as Peel's assistant chief clerk from 1818 until 1861.1
1. British Government, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons: Army Estimates; Army; Militia, 1861, 36, 228.