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Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Free Ticket, uniface oval engraved silver by A. Douglas, named (Admit Sir Thos. Turton Bart. Family & Friends), hallmarked London 1821, 75 x 56mm, 23.12g (W 1366, this piece; D & W 88/319; Young, Gardens, p.28, this piece). Very fine and toned, extremely rare; very few similar specimens known £1,000-£1,500
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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1998 (102); bt August 1998.
Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Bt (1764-1844), of Starborough Castle, Surrey, and latterly Grosvenor street, Mayfair; b Nettlebed, Oxon; educ. St Paul's School and Jesus College, Cambridge; called to the Bar 1794; High Sheriff for Surrey, 1795-6; Major, Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry, 1797; established his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, 1801; director, Atlas Assurance, 1811, and chairman, 1816. Turton married a Yorkshire heiress, Mary Michell (†1837) in September 1786, who bore him seven children. Nevertheless, according to a report in The Times of 9 March 1820, commenting on his efforts to re-secure the seat of Southwark in that year's election (that he had won in 1806 and held until 1812), Turton was prepared, even on the hustings, to enter into 'the history of his youthful adventures a little more explicitly than we can decently report'. Apparently, scurrility was a feature of Southwark elections, and at Turton's first appearance there in 1802, which proved unsuccessful, he was obliged to gloss over his adultery with Mrs Margaret Dunnage, wife of James Dunnage, a City merchant, which had cost him £5,000 damages in 1797. The report of the trial, held at the Guildhall on 14 June 1797, detailing their affair over some 18 months in 1795-6, at various parks, gardens and houses on both sides of the river, was the talk of the City. Lady Turton showed 'the accommodating spirit of modern wives' by appearing in company with Mrs Dunnage on that occasion. Turton nominated Admiral Sir Alan Gardner for Westminster (see Lot 613). The Turton family are buried in the family vault at the Turton Chapel, Lingfield
Gardens, LAMBETH, Vauxhall Gardens, Free Ticket, uniface oval engraved silver by A. Douglas, named (Admit Sir Thos. Turton Bart. Family & Friends), hallmarked London 1821, 75 x 56mm, 23.12g (W 1366, this piece; D & W 88/319; Young, Gardens, p.28, this piece). Very fine and toned, extremely rare; very few similar specimens known £1,000-£1,500
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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 1998 (102); bt August 1998.
Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Bt (1764-1844), of Starborough Castle, Surrey, and latterly Grosvenor street, Mayfair; b Nettlebed, Oxon; educ. St Paul's School and Jesus College, Cambridge; called to the Bar 1794; High Sheriff for Surrey, 1795-6; Major, Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry, 1797; established his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, 1801; director, Atlas Assurance, 1811, and chairman, 1816. Turton married a Yorkshire heiress, Mary Michell (†1837) in September 1786, who bore him seven children. Nevertheless, according to a report in The Times of 9 March 1820, commenting on his efforts to re-secure the seat of Southwark in that year's election (that he had won in 1806 and held until 1812), Turton was prepared, even on the hustings, to enter into 'the history of his youthful adventures a little more explicitly than we can decently report'. Apparently, scurrility was a feature of Southwark elections, and at Turton's first appearance there in 1802, which proved unsuccessful, he was obliged to gloss over his adultery with Mrs Margaret Dunnage, wife of James Dunnage, a City merchant, which had cost him £5,000 damages in 1797. The report of the trial, held at the Guildhall on 14 June 1797, detailing their affair over some 18 months in 1795-6, at various parks, gardens and houses on both sides of the river, was the talk of the City. Lady Turton showed 'the accommodating spirit of modern wives' by appearing in company with Mrs Dunnage on that occasion. Turton nominated Admiral Sir Alan Gardner for Westminster (see Lot 613). The Turton family are buried in the family vault at the Turton Chapel, Lingfield