Heroes and Rebels in the Family Tree—Joseph Dally “Posh” Fletcher
Heroes and Rebels in the Family Tree—Joseph Dally “Posh” Fletcher From Edward FitzGerald (as published in the ebook “Edward FitzGerald and ‘Posh’” by James Blyth): “Your ‘Heroes’ put me up to sending you one of mine—neither Prince, Poet, or Man of Letters, but Captain of a Lowestoft Lugger, and endowed with all the Qualities of Soul and Body to make him Leader of many more men than he has under him. Being unused to sitting for his portrait, he looks a little sheepish—and the Man is a Lamb with Wife, Children, and dumber Animals. But when the proper time comes—abroad—at sea or on shore—then it is quite another matter. And I know no one of sounder sense, and grander Manners, in whatever Company.” Joseph Dally Fletcher was born on July 20, 1839 as the seventh child of eight born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England to Joseph “Martin” Allerton Fletcher 1805-1879 and Sarah Gardner 1808-1880. Their children were: 1. Judi...