A set of nine George II silver dinner plates, William Grundy, London, 1758

with shaped gadroon rims, engraved with contemporary arms under a viscount’s coronet, fully marked below rims, bases with scratch weights 18=1 (2), 18=5, 18=14, 19=4, 19=7, 19=13, 19=16, 19=19.

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 28, 1980, lot 517

scratches and minor dings from use, overall good condition
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The arms are those of Ingram for Charles, Viscount Irvine and Lord Ingram, of Temple Newsam, co. York, born 1726, M.P. (Whig) for Horsham 1747-63, Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales 1756-60 and to George III 1760-63; representative peer for Scotland 1768-78. He married Miss Frances Gibson (commonly called Shepheard) in 1758 . Her father was Samuel Shepherd of Exning, Suffolk, a London merchant, who left her 30,000 pounds  and other sums of 10,000 and 20,000 pounds provided she married a peer or one likely to succeed as such, other than Thomas Bromley, son of Lord Montfort.

Charles died in 1778 without male heir, leaving  five daughters and co-heirs, all of whom  (when single)  bore the additional name of Shepherd. The eldest, Isabella Anne, married Francis, 2nd Marquess of Hertford who took the additional name of Ingram in 1807; the 2nd, Frances married  Lord William Gordon, 2nd son of Cosmo George, 3rd Duke of Gordon; the 3rd,  Elizabeth married Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross, co Stafford whose son assumed the name of Ingram on succeeding to Temple Newsam; the 4th, Harriet married  Colonel Henry Hervey Aston, of Aston, co. Chester and the 5th Louisa Susannah married Sir John Ramsden of Byrom, co York, 4th Baronet (The Complete Peerage).

Temple Newsam, the great Tudor-Jacobean mansion was purchased by the city of Leeds from Lord Halifax in 1922 and gradually, under curators such as  Ernest Musgrave, Robert Rowe, and James Lomax established a fine collection of Decorative Arts, the silver of which was published  in Lomax’s 1992 book  British Silver at  Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall.