John Singleton Copley 1st Baron Lyndhurst Armorial Tumbler c1835

Description

Heading : John Singleton Copley 1st Baron Lyndhurst armorial tumbler
Date : c1830-1840
Period : William IV
Origin : England
Colour : Clear glass black and gold decoration
Bowl : Dodecagonal with a gilt rim and a gilt armorial with black lowlights for increased detail
Pontil : Broad polished
Glass Type : Lead
Size : Height 11.5cm. bowl 8.7cm Base 6.9cm
Condition : Wear commesurate with age
Restoration : None
Weight : 406 grams

Reference: For the armorial please see ” Memorial biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society”

We always take great delight when we manage to uncover the story behind an item. it is one of the most satisfying aspects of the job. History really can come to life. We are seldom able to uncover much detail about person who commissioned an item unless they were well known and are thus usually restricted to births. marriages. deaths and military records.

On very rare occasions are we able to find portraits and photographs. In this case we have both and we go back to the very beginnings of photography and the late Georgian and early Victorian periods. If you love a success story. those who rise to great heights from more humble beginnings. read on.

John Singleton Copley was born in Boston in British Colonial America eighteen months before the “Tea Party”. A gifted mathematician he graduated Cambridge as “second wrangler” ( second in year) and was called to the bar in 1804. King’s Serjeant. Attorney General. Master of the Rolls. Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor were all posts he occupied in a brilliant legal and political career.

Lord Lyndhurst’s armorial bearings are formally in heraldic terms described as follows:

Arms. — Argent. a cross flory within a bordure azure.. charged with eight escallops of the field.

Crest. — A dexter arm embowed in armor propre. charged with an escallop or ( gold). grasping a sword. the cubit encircled with a chaplet of laurel all propre. Supporters. — Two eagles. wings elevated propre.

Upon his being raised to the peerage and awarded the baronetcy the coronet was added to the armorial. The peerage was granted when the Master of The Rolls was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1827. the highest ranking of the Great Officers of State. including the Prime Minister.