£300

George Brudenell, 4th Earl of Cardigan (1712-1790), married Mary, daughter of the 2nd Duke of Montagu in 1730, and assumed the name Montagu upon the Duke's death in 1749. He was created Knight of the Garter in 1752, appointed Constable of Windsor Castle, Governor to the Prince of Wales and Master of the Horse.

£100

F. Burden born circa 1727, died 1 March 1787, aged 60.

£50

Sarah Burtt born circa 1780, died 22 February 1837, aged 57.

£150

Caltoft, bearing these arms, was an old Lincolnshire family.

£50

Thomas Cooke born circa 1716, died 11 October 1805, aged 89.

£500

Sir James Eyre, judge, baptized at Wells, Somerset, on 13 September 1734, the son of the Revd Thomas Eyre of Wells. In 1763 he was counsel for John Wilkes in the suit that established the illegality of general warrants (warrants for the arrest of un-named persons involved in an offence). He later (1787) became chief baron of the Court of Exchequer, and in 1793, chief justice of common pleas. He presided in 1794 over the famous state trials of members of the London Corresponding Society for alleged subversion of the government. He died on 6th July 1799, and, having no children, left the proceeds of his estate to his wife, Mary, his two surviving sisters, and his brother Dr Thomas Eyre. He was buried in Ruscombe parish church, Berkshire.

£100

John Howden born circa 1758, died 18 January 1828, aged 70.

£125

Richard Jesson born circa 1778, died 24 February 1803, aged 25.

£750

Jos. Johnston born circa 1706, died 1742, aged 38  AND Agnes Johnston born circa 1671, died 1737, aged 66.

£500

J Lehunt born circa 1670, died 7 May 1731, aged 61. This is probably John Lehunt, one of at least three sons of  John and Catherine Lehunt, who was christened 18th August 1670 at Saint Paul, Covent Garden, Westminster. The Four Shillings in the Pound Aid assessments for the City of Westminster 1693/4, record John Lehunt Esq. owning property in King Street South, with a rental value of £30.00

MOLYNEUX, Sir Francis and Ann. Mourning brooch. A large and fine gold brooch (max length 36 mm) consisting of an oblong glazed cover over woven hair, surrounded by 12 flat cut garnets, with a suspension loop to the top centre. On the reverse, a pin, and engraved wording commemorating two people:
             Ann Molyneux Ob 11 March 1811 Aet 76
         Sir Frances Molyneux Ob 9 June 1812 Aet 74
One garnet with a crack, and with scratch marks across the inscriptions, but in all other respects a most beautiful brooch. Click on photo for further views.

£300

Sir Francis and Ann Molyneux were the children of  Sir William Molyneux, 6th Bart of Teversal and of Wellow, and his wife Anne Challand. Ann was born circa 1735, and died unmarried on 11th March 1811. Sir Francis was born circa 1738, and died unmarried on 9th June 1812. He was from 1765 until his death, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in the House of Lords, and became 7th baronet of Teversal upon his father's death in 1781. The Molyneux family had acquired land at Teversal, Nottinghamshire in the 16th century, and by 1700 had become engaged in mining there. The baronetcy became extinct upon the death of Sir Francis in 1812.

£200

George Nodes born circa 1698, died 8 July 1777, aged 79. This is George Nodes born 14th November and christened 15th December 1698, at Southill, Bedfordshire.

£120

Robert Ralston born circa 1735, died 19 May 1823, aged 88.

£60

Ann Rooke born circa 1743, died 25 March 1792, aged 49.

£75

John Tetlow born circa 1755, died 25 July 1809, aged 54 AND Edward Tetlow died 27 September [1809?] aged 20.

£300

Philip Webber (c1709-1799) was a prominent Falmouth attorney. In the 1740s he took into his household William Pryce (1735 -1790), who had been orphaned. Pryce became a well known surgeon, mineralogist, and antiquary. ODNB

HENRY KIRKE WHITE & SOUTHEY

WHITE, Henry Kirke. Mourning brooch. An oblong gold brooch (max length 24mm) consisting of a glazed cover over woven hair, surrounded by a border of mounted pearls. On the reverse, a pin, and engraved wording: Edith May Southey from the Mother of the late Henry Kirke White 1824 . In excellent condition. Click on photo for further views.

                                                                                           £750

Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), the poet and essayist, was born in 1785 in Nottingham, the third of the six children of John White, a butcher, and his wife, Mary (née Neville). White’s Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, published in 1803, attracted favourable notice from the poet Robert Southey (1774–1843), with whom White entered a correspondence. After White's death, aged just 21 years, a large quantity of verse and prose was found among White's papers, and this material was given by his family to Robert Southey, who duly compiled The Remains of Henry Kirke White … with an Account of his Life (2 vols., 1807). Southey's eldest daughter was Edith May Southey (1804–1871), the recipient of this brooch. She married her father's close friend John Wood Warter in 1834. (ODNB). We may assume from the dedication that the hair belonged to Henry Kirke White.

£200

Stephen John Winthrop MD, born in London 30 January 1767, died 21 April 1819, aged 52. The son of Benjamin Winthrop and Elizabeth Neale, he married Mary Anne Horton Lloyd in 1799, the daughter of the parliamentary reformer Gamaliel Lloyd (1744-1817).