Kentish Chronicle 23 August 1808.

Folkestone, August 22nd. An inquest was held at the "Packet Boat," this day, before Thomas Baker, esq. Mayor and Coroner, on the body of a young man, named Henry Jordan, servant of Capt. Thomas, of Sandgate, who died last night, of the hurt he received by a gig running over him on Saturday evening. It appeared in evidence, that as Mr. Cavena, of the Royal Staff Corps, and Mr. Turner, of the 95th Rifle Regiment, were returning from Dover, in a gig, the horse took fright in descending the Folkestone hill, and set off at full speed, throwing the gentlemen out; the animal continued to gallop furiously down Dover Street, and getting entangled with the panniers of an ass (in one of which sat a young child), they were thrown with great violence in different directions, and the child, though much hurt on the head by the fall, was not dangerously wounded. Immediately after, the vehicle coming in contact with a little boy on a pony, in the care of the above-mentioned Henry Jordan, who, with the utmost presence of mind extended his body to throw the child off the pony, on the opposite side, received a most violent contusion in the chest and abdomen by the horse and chaise passing over his body. He was taken to the Packet Boat, and languished in great agony till eight o'clock yesterday evening. Verdict – Accidental Death.

The circumstance of his death is the more to be lamented, as he evidently sacrificed his own life to preserve the child of his master, who, although hurt, is in a fair way of recovery. The gentlemen were but little injured. The horse is forfeited to the Lord of the Manor.

Note: This gives an earlier date for Packet Boat.