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A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT WINE-COASTERS
MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817
A SET OF EIGHT GEORGE III SILVER-GILT WINE-COASTERS MARK OF WILLIAM BURWASH, LONDON, 1817 Each circular and with basketweave sides applied with fruiting grapevines and a gadrooned border, engraved with a crest below an earl's coronet, each marked on border and inside, with wood base 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) The crest is that of Talbot, presumably for Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot of Hensol (1777-1849). Talbot was the son of John Chetwynd Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot of Hensol (1750-1793), and his wife, Charlotte (d. 1804), daughter of Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire. Talbot succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father in May 1793 and matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford the following year. After leaving Oxford Talbot joined Lord Whitworth's embassy in Russia as a voluntary attaché, returning to England before 1800, when he married Frances Thomasine, eldest daughter of Charles Lambert of Beau Parc in co. Meath. in 1800. Talbot was heavily involved in the volunteer force for Staffordshire to see off a possible invasion by the French under Napoleon. In 1817 he became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and, until he was replaced in 1821, he rendered considerable services to the agriculture of the country, in recognition of which he was presented with the freedom of Drogheda. From 1812 until his death Talbot also served as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Talbot died at Ingestre Hall in Staffordshire in 10 January 1849 and was buried at Ingestre, being succeeded by his second son, Henry John Chetwynd who also became 18th Earl of Shrewsbury when he succeeded a distant cousin, in 1856.