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ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) A set of four portrait miniatures of the Badcock family: Thomas Stanhope Badcock, his wife Ann Badcock née Buckle, youngest daughter Sophia Susannah Coleridge and Mrs Richard Badcock. Each inscribed verso with original pen and ink inscription of the name and date of the sitter Watercolour on ivory Gilt-metal frames the reverse backed with green velvet set into a bespoke velvet lined case with carved gilt-wood frame Oval, three measuring 62 mm high and one measuring 51 mm high Thomas Stanhope Badcock (1749–1821) became High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1809 and was a descendant of Sir Salathiel Lovell. In 1797 he inherited the estates of Little Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall in Lincolnshire following the premature death of his brother, Lovell Badcock, who died unmarried. On 17th February 1780 he married Anne, daughter of William Buckle, of the Mythe House Tewkesbury. They had two sons and two daughters. His sons, Lovell Benjamin Badcock and William Stanhope Badcock had distinguished military and naval careers, becoming a lieutenant-general and vice-admiral respectively, whilst his eldest daughter, Anne Badcock was married in 1809 to Major-General Sir Jasper Nicolls KCB. His youngest daughter, Sophia Badcock, was married in 1814 to the Reverend James Duke Coleridge, a nephew of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He died on 13 April 1821 and is buried in the Abbey Church at Bath.