A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER MEAT DISHES, ROBERT HENNELL, LONDON, 1818

The arms are those of Sheffield, baronets of Normanby, Lincolnshire for Sir John Sheffield, 2^nd Bt. (1743? - 4 February1815), who succeeded to the title on the death of his father on 5 September 1774; and for his nephew Sir Robert Sheffield, 4^th Bt. (25 February 1786 – 7 November 1862), who succeeded to the title on the death of his father (brother of the 2^nd Bt.), Sir Robert Sheffield, 3^rd Bt. (1758? - 26 February 1815).

Sir John Sheffield, 2^nd Bt. was married on 3 April 1784 to Charlotte Sophia (1767-1835), daughter of the Very Rev. the Hon. William Digby, a grandson of William Digby, 5^th Baron Digby, and his wife, Charlotte Cox. Mrs. John Sheffield, as she then was, was the subject of a full-length portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to have been painted to celebrate her marriage, which is now in the collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.