Beschreibung:

A GEORGE III SILVER MEAT DISH, WILLIAM BENNETT LONDON, 1807 shaped oval, the border engraved with a coat-of-arms, motto and crest below the applied gadroon rim 40.7cm wide, 1251gr (40oz) The arms are those of Farrer quartering Loxham with a label of difference for Oliver Farrer of the law firm, Farrer & Co., whose obituary was published in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, in March 1866 (p. 435): 'Jan. 1. At 66, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the 80th year of his age, Oliver Farrer, Esq., of Ingleborough, Yorkshire. 'The deceased was the second son of the late James Farrer, Esq., who died in 1820, by Frances, daughter of William Loxham, Esq., and uncle of James Farrer, Esq., late M.P. for South Durham. He was born at Manchester in the year 1786, received an early education at a private school, and subsequently entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1806, and proceeded M.A. in 1809. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1812, and was a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and also a magistrate for the counties of Westmoreland and Lancaster. He was co-proprietor of the estate of Ingleborough, with his brother, the late J.W. Farrer, Esq., and was a director in the Law Life Assurance Society, the Provincial Bank of Ireland, and several other long-established joint-stock banks in the city of London, and always took an active part in the management of their affairs. He died unmarried, and was interred in the family vault in Clapham churchyard, Yorkshire.' A silver soup tureen and cover, Richard Sibley London, 1833, engraved with the same coat-of-arms, crest and motto is in the Farrer Collection. This celebrated group of antique silver was bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in 1946 from the estate of William Francis Farrer (1858-1924), formerly a partner in the law firm of Farrer & Co., solicitors to the royal family, of which his father, Sir William James Farrer (1822-1911) had been chief partner.