
Ellis Finch
Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
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Head of Knightsbridge Silver Department
These arms are of a branch of the KEIR family who are identified as being of Calcutta and as descendants of the WHITMORE family of co. Berwick.
The KEIR family are historically a family of the Carse, Stirlingshire, Scotland and it is their arms that appear here with added differences that receive an exemplification grant in 1768 by the Court of Lord Lyon. Notably the assay date is also 1768. It is expected that the family had connections to the East India Company but no information has been discovered.