The tiger and the soup tureen

[anteros_lmc]

If you cast your minds back, some of you might remember the tiger acquired by Pellew in India, that has put in an appearance in various historical and fictional posts here. Pellew seems to have had a bit of a weakness for exotic animals in general and tigers in particular, which caused his wife Susan no small degree of consternation. You may

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[nodbear]

Great that you managed to post this and yes it is such a classic Ned Pellew story - grand dining, generous hospitality, frolicking mids and a tyger .

I expect the incident did become known at home to the dismay of some mothers ! I wonder who the leading culprit mids were who were mastheaded ?

of course it would be possible to know who were the mids at the time ..

here just by the by is an earlier page of Cullodens muster with a number of mids of interest and Will Warden as a lieutenant . Sadly this is 1804 though so a little early for the tyger miscreants

[anteros_lmc]

It's such a classic Ned story isn't it? It's the kind of thing you really couldn't make up :D

Do we know if any of the Indefatigables were aboard the Culloden in 1809? John Gaze must have been there at least surely.