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Large armorial Regency style Georgian silver 2nd course dish
The Arms of the Viscounts Hampden, of Great and Little Hampden in the County of Buckingham in the Peerage of Great Britain
The armorial bearings as engraved upon this George III presumed English Sterling Silver Second Course Dish circa 1815 are those of the Viscounts Hampden. They may be blazoned as follows:
Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Argent a saltire gules between four eagles displayed azure (for Hampden) 2nd and 3rd Per bend sinister ermine and ermines a lion rampant or (for Trevor)
The shield is ensigned with the coronet of a viscount.
Supporters: Two wyverns reguardant sable
Motto: Vestigia nulla retrorsum [No steps backward]
Given the presumed date of the manufacture of this particular piece of around the year 1815 it was undoubtedly part of a suite of silver in the ownership of Thomas Trevor-Hampden, the 2nd Viscount Hampden and 5th Baron Trevor. He was the son of Robert Trevor, the 1st Viscount Hampden and 4th Baron Trevor and Constantia, daughter of Peter Anthony de Huybert, Lord of Van Kruningen in Holland. Thomas was born on the 11th September 1746 at The Hague in Holland, his father being the British envoy extraordinary at the States-General at the time. Thomas married firstly Catherine, daughter of General David Græme, of Braco Castle in the County of Perth at St James's, Westminster on the 13th June 1768. Catherine (born 12th April 1749) died on the 24th May 1804 at Bath. Thereafter, her widower, Thomas married secondly Jane Maria, daughter of George Brown, of Ellistoun in Scotland. She died on the 27th June 1833 some nine years after the death of her husband. Thomas having died on the 20th August 1824 without issue from either of his marriages, he was succeeded in his peerages by his younger brother, John as the 3rd Viscount and 6th Baron. Although John had married Harriet, only daughter of the Reverend Daniel Burton, DD, Canon of Christ Church in 1773 they too had no issue. So when John died on 9th September 1824 the Viscountcy of Hampden, of Great and Little Hampden in the County of Buckingham which was created on the 14th June 1776 and the Barony of Trevor, of Bromham in the County of Bedford which was created on the 31st December 1711 fell into extinction, John only having held these peerages for some three weeks at the time of his death. His widow, Harriet died on the 26th June 1829.
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