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commemorative / commemorate1813 Thomas Wentworth Beaumont Coming of Age: a creamware porter mug
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1813 Thomas Wentworth Beaumont Coming of Age: a creamware porter mug printed in black with name and date, 116mm, restored * Beaumont represented Northumberland as Independent Whig member between 1818 and 1826 (in the course of which election he is recorded as spending between £40,000 and £60,000 in his failed attempt to seek re-election) and again between 1830 until 1837. In the intervening years he represented Stafford. A supporter of Queen Caroline and Catholic Relief he was a prominent Reformer. Otherwise notable for claiming that his then fiancŽ’s mother, Lady Swinburne, was an adulteress, he also fought a duel in 1826 with John Lambton (later Earl of Durham). Upon the death of his mother in 1831 he inherited the Blackett mining fortune to become the richest commoner in the land.
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commemorative / commemorate
1813 Thomas Wentworth Beaumont Coming of Age: a creamware porter mug printed in black with name and date, 116mm, restored * Beaumont represented Northumberland as Independent Whig member between 1818 and 1826 (in the course of which election he is recorded as spending between £40,000 and £60,000 in his failed attempt to seek re-election) and again between 1830 until 1837. In the intervening years he represented Stafford. A supporter of Queen Caroline and Catholic Relief he was a prominent Reformer. Otherwise notable for claiming that his then fiancŽ’s mother, Lady Swinburne, was an adulteress, he also fought a duel in 1826 with John Lambton (later Earl of Durham). Upon the death of his mother in 1831 he inherited the Blackett mining fortune to become the richest commoner in the land.
Commemoratives, Fairings, Staffordshire Pot Lids and Prattware
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Kennetholme
Midgham
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 5UX
United Kingdom
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