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A set of 24 George II sterling silver dinner plates, each…
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A set of 24 George II sterling silver dinner plates, each shaped circular with gadrooned border, engraved with a coat-of-arms below a baron's coronet. Hallmarked Thomas Heming, London, 1759 width 652g depth 24.5 cm (each), the arms are those of the Earl of Abingdon for Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon (1740-1799). Bertie was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the second eldest Son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon (1692-1760) and Anna Maria Collins., When his elder brother James died in a fire at Rycote in 1745, Bertie became his father's heir, succeeding him as 4th Earl of Abingdon on 10 June 1760. Bertie was also a music patron and composer, as well as a political writer. Abingdon earned himself the reputation of a political maverick. His obituary in the gentleman's magazine remarked that 'his frequent speeches in the house of Peers were peculiarly eccentric.' He married Charlotte Warren, daughter of Admiral Peter Warren, on 7 July 1768. They had seven children., Abingdon was plagued by financial problems from the moment he inherited the earldom. With his own extravagant lifestyle doing little to alleviate his problems, he died insolvent in 1799. Much of his estate at Westbury, Wiltshire, was sold off over a period from 1777 until his death. The manor of Weston-on-the-Green in Oxfordshire, which he inherited from his brother Captain Peregrine Bertie in 1790, was entailed by Peregrine as a secundogeniture and passed to his younger Sons, eventually becoming the property of the Rev. Frederic Bertie. Abingdon square park in Manhattan is named after him.
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Silver: Flatware/Cutlery and Accessories