A pair of early VIctorian silver wine coolers, R. & S. Garrard, London, 1839

the ovoid bodies and domed bases applied with strapwork on matted reserves, foliate forked handles, rosette and entrelac borders, engraved with contemporary arms, detachable crested rims and plian liners

The arms are those of Villiers accolé with Barham for Sir George William Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, and his wife Catherine, daughter of the Earl of Verulam and widow of John Foster Barham. 

He was born in 1800, and attended St. John's College, Cambridge.  He ranked up an impressive list of positions and honors, at his death in 1870, it was noted "his principal qualification for the posts he filled was, perhaps, his unwearied industry.  Probably there was never a harder worker."  The positions which benefited from this included: attaché in St. Petersburg 1820-23, Commissioner of the Customs 1824-33, Envoy to Madrid 1833-39, Grand Cross of the Bath 1837, Privy Councillor 1840, Privy Seal 1840-41, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1840-41 and 1864-65, President of the Board of Trade 1846-47, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1847-52, Knight of the Garter 1849, Chancellor of the Queen's University in Ireland 1851 to his death, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1853-58 (during the Crimean War), 1865-66, and 1868 to 1870, Ambassador to the Congress of Paris, 1856, and to Berlin for the Coronation of William I in 1861.

Gladstone wrote of him as "a statesman of many gifts, a most lovable and genial man," and Disraeli portrayed the couple as "Lord and Lady Everingham" in Coningsby.  He was described as "a tall, thin, handsome, aristocratic-looking person," while Harriet Granville characterized his wife with "she is plain, but seems the best, most sensible, inoffensive wife that can be."