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A Farquhar Legacy
Lot 120
A pair of George III silver salvers Paul Storr, London, 1818 (2)
19 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A pair of George III silver salvers
Paul Storr, London, 1818
Each with applied cast shell and foliate border leading to centres engraved with the Farquhar coat of arms, raised on four rocaille and grapevine feet, diameter 22.5cm, weight 36.2oz. (2)
Each with applied cast shell and foliate border leading to centres engraved with the Farquhar coat of arms, raised on four rocaille and grapevine feet, diameter 22.5cm, weight 36.2oz. (2)
Footnotes
This is the armorial of Robert Townsend FARQUHAR (1776-1830) and his wife Maria Frances Geslip de LAUTOUR (1792-1875). They were married in 1809. The arms were used in the period 1809-21.
Born Robert Townsend FARQUHAR in Westminster the second son of Sir Walter FARQUHAR (1738-1819) 1st Baronet of Cadogan House by his wife the widow Anne HARVIE nee STEVENSON (1738-1793). In 1821 he was created Baronet of Mauritius and in 1824 changed his name to Robert TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR. He was a merchant, MP for Newton 1825-6 and Hythe 1826-30, an officer and administrator of the East India Company as well as a Colonial Governor lately of Mauritius. He died at his home in Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, Middlesex. The engraving shows him using the arms of his father undifferenced, despite his position as second son.
Maria Frances Geslip de LAUTOUR was born in Chennai Tamil, Nadu, India the daughter and co-heir of Francois Joseph Louis de LATOUR (1730-1807) of Madras and Devonshire Place, Westminster. The family arms are attributed to the de LAUTOUR family of Hexton House, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, but contain a number of inaccuracies. Maria Frances later married Thomas HAMILTON.
Notably the arms are shown impaled when they should have used an escutcheon of pretence.
The blazon: argent, a lion rampant sable between in chief two sinister hands couped and appaume and in base a crescent azure (Farquhar) – impaling - erminois, a fess embattled in chief sable cotised argent, in chief a tower triple-towered of the second (de Lautour).
The crest: an eagle rising proper (Farquhar)