A pair of George III silver meat dishes, William Stroud, London, 1806

The arms are those of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (b. 1771, succ. 1799), who married in 1807 Joan, daughter of James Wedderburn-Colvile, of Inveresk. He visited Canada in 1803 and founded settlements on Prince Edward Island and in Upper Canada. He was Representative Peer for Scotland 1806-18, Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright 1807 to 1820, and Fellow of the Royal Society 1808. In 1811 he received a large grant of land from the Hudson Bay Company and founded Winnipeg, and in 1815 he returned to Canada for four years. On his return to Europe he went to Pau for his health and died there in 1820; his widow survived until 1871.