A set of four George II silver candlesticks, George Wickes, London, 1743

Please note that the W symbol has been removed from this lot. This lot will remain in New Bond Street after the sale.

The arms are those of Thynne, Marquesses of Bath, probably for Thomas Thynne (25 January 1765 – 27 March 1837), styled Viscount Weymouth from 1789 until 19 November 1796, when he succeeded as 2^nd Marquess of Bath upon the death of his father.

 

‘We have to announce the death of the Marquis of Bath, which took place on Monday in Lower Grosvenor-street. His Lordship had been for some time seriously indisposed with dropsy, but his death was rather unexpected. The melancholy intelligence was brought to his eldest daughter, the Countess of Cawdor, while her Ladyship and the Noble Earl were entertaining the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and a select party at dinner in South Audley-street. His Lordship was in his 73d year, having been born Jan. 25, 1765; he married, in 1794, the Hon. Isabelle Elizabeth Byng, third daughter of the fourth Viscount Torrington, by whom (who died in May, 1830) he has left a numerous issue. Lady Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, is Countess of Cawdor, and Lady Charlot5te Anne, born in 1811, is Duchess of Buccleuch; another daughter, Lady Louisa, is married to the Hon. Henry Lascelles, second son of the Earl of Harewood. The late Lord Weymouth, the Marquis’s eldest son, was long estranged from his family; he died a few months since, married, but leaving no issue. The title and estates now devolve on Lord Henry Frederick Thynne, who is a Captain in the Navy, and married to the Hon. Harriet Baring, daughter of Lord Ashburton; their eldest child, John Alexander, now Viscount Weymouth, was born March 1, 1831. The present Marquis has five brothers – Lords John, William, Edward, and Charles Thynne. The family name is Botteville; one John Botteville [living during the reign of Edward IV, 1461-1483], however, got the name of John of th’Inne, from reading in one of the Inns of Court, whence the name of Thynne. By the death of the late Marquis Ministers have at their disposal the ribbon of the Garter, and the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Somerset.’ (The Morning Post, London, Thursday, 30 March 1837, p. 3c)

 

A number of items purchased by members of the Thynne family from George Wickes’s commercial successors, Edward Wakelin, Wakelin & Taylor, Wakelin & Garrard and Robert Garrard, were sold at Christie’s, London, Furniture, Porcelain and Silver from Longleat, 13 June 2002. An essay in the catalogue accompanying lot 401 (a fruit basket and stand, Wakelin & Taylor, London, 1778) notes that the Garrard Ledgers (Victoria and Albert Museum) contain ‘a remarkable insight into the collecting tastes of the first and second Marquesses of Bath.’