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A pair of incredibly rare 19th century William IV period Bristol Sheriff ' James Adam Gordon of Portbury Esq - Sheriff - 1830 ' brass cape / gown buttons. Makers marks to verso for G. Boggett of London. Each button decorated with a central coat of arms, with text surrounding. Dated 1830 to top. Very rare, likely unique, pair of Bristol related buttons.
NOTE: Biography: Gordon’s family had made their fortune in the West Indies in the eighteenth century and purchased plantations there and landed estates in England. On the death of his father (a Tory Member despite his marriage to a sister of the advanced Whig Samuel Whitbread) in 1822, he inherited property in Somerset and Hertfordshire, while the personalty, which was sworn under £100,000, was sold in order to purchase more land in England. A survey of his West Indian inheritance in 1824 showed that he owned 885 acres (with 460 slaves) in Antigua, 421 acres in St. Vincent and 112 in St. Kitt’s.2 He became laird of Knockspock and Terpersie, Aberdeenshire, in succession to a cousin in 1836. At the general election of 1826 he offered for Tregony against the interest of the Whig patron, the 3rd earl of Darlington, and he was involved in a double return made by rival mayors. The Commons confirmed the election of his opponents, 29 Nov. 1826, and his petition was unsuccessful. He subsequently purchased Darlington’s property in the borough and was installed as recorder, 8 Apr. 1830. His ambition was to be returned for Somerset and he canvassed the county in the summer of 1829. According to Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen, he was ‘nearly unknown’ in the county and his politics were ‘quite so’, his father had ‘cut his throat’, his ‘mother (who was Whitbread’s sister) is deranged’, and ‘the young man himself has been under restraint’; his ‘only pretension ... seems to be in the length of his purse’. In the event, his appointment as sheriff in 1830 precluded him from standing at the general election that summer, and he returned himself and a friend for Tregony, despite local opposition.
NOTE: Biography: Gordon’s family had made their fortune in the West Indies in the eighteenth century and purchased plantations there and landed estates in England. On the death of his father (a Tory Member despite his marriage to a sister of the advanced Whig Samuel Whitbread) in 1822, he inherited property in Somerset and Hertfordshire, while the personalty, which was sworn under £100,000, was sold in order to purchase more land in England. A survey of his West Indian inheritance in 1824 showed that he owned 885 acres (with 460 slaves) in Antigua, 421 acres in St. Vincent and 112 in St. Kitt’s.2 He became laird of Knockspock and Terpersie, Aberdeenshire, in succession to a cousin in 1836. At the general election of 1826 he offered for Tregony against the interest of the Whig patron, the 3rd earl of Darlington, and he was involved in a double return made by rival mayors. The Commons confirmed the election of his opponents, 29 Nov. 1826, and his petition was unsuccessful. He subsequently purchased Darlington’s property in the borough and was installed as recorder, 8 Apr. 1830. His ambition was to be returned for Somerset and he canvassed the county in the summer of 1829. According to Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen, he was ‘nearly unknown’ in the county and his politics were ‘quite so’, his father had ‘cut his throat’, his ‘mother (who was Whitbread’s sister) is deranged’, and ‘the young man himself has been under restraint’; his ‘only pretension ... seems to be in the length of his purse’. In the event, his appointment as sheriff in 1830 precluded him from standing at the general election that summer, and he returned himself and a friend for Tregony, despite local opposition.
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Hanham
Bristol
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United Kingdom
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