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Auction 140 15-16 Mar 2017
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BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Benjamin West, Purchase of a Picture for the British Institute, 1815, a copper medal by G. Mills, bust left, rev. names of subscribers in lines around centre, edge engraved (Presented by Mr West to G.I. Cholmondeley, Esqr.), 41mm (BHM 862). Very fine; in contemporary case £40-60
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George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley, PC (1792-1870), Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire; educ. Eton; MP for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1817-21; one of the sons of peers holding the king's train at his coronation, 1821; called to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration, 1821; peer of the realm 1827-70; Lord Great Chamberlain 1830-7. Cholmondeley was a prominent exhibitor of paintings and art at the principal galleries in London in the 1820s and 1830a
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Benjamin West, Purchase of a Picture for the British Institute, 1815, a copper medal by G. Mills, bust left, rev. names of subscribers in lines around centre, edge engraved (Presented by Mr West to G.I. Cholmondeley, Esqr.), 41mm (BHM 862). Very fine; in contemporary case £40-60
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George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley, PC (1792-1870), Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire; educ. Eton; MP for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1817-21; one of the sons of peers holding the king's train at his coronation, 1821; called to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration, 1821; peer of the realm 1827-70; Lord Great Chamberlain 1830-7. Cholmondeley was a prominent exhibitor of paintings and art at the principal galleries in London in the 1820s and 1830a