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Lot Essay
GAVIN, 1ST MARQUESS AND 7TH EARL OF BREADALBANE
Lord Breadalbane was Lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria from 1873 to 1874 and Treasurer of the Household for five years from 1880. He was later appointed Lord Steward to the Household from 1892 until 1895. In 1907 he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, a post he held until his death in 1922. As a Scottish peer he was unable to sit in the House of Lords until he was created Baron Breadalbane of Kenmore, co. Perth in 1875. He later was made Earl of Ormelie, co. Caithness and Marquess of Breadalbane in 1885 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1894.
He married Lady Alma Imogen Leonora Carlotta Graham (d.1932), youngest daughter of the 4th Duke of Montrose, in 1872. There was no issue from this union and on the Marquess's death his titles became extinct, and his nephew Iain Edward Herbert Campbell (1885-1923) succeeded as 8th Earl of Breadalbane. Lord Breadalbane was a great collector of early silver. Many of the pieces in his collection were stamped with the script ownership mark Breadalbane as on the present lot. His collection was mostly dispersed in two sales, the first at Christie’s in 1926 and a second at Dowells in Edinburgh in 1935.
SIR FRANK GREEN
Frank Green inherited a fortune from his father Sir Edward Green, 1st Bt. (1831-1923) a Yorkshire ironmaster and Conservative politician. He followed his father into the business and was a prodigious collector of art and renovator of historic buildings. He saved the Treasurer's House in York, which he presented to the National Trust, together with its contents in 1930.
Lord Breadalbane was Lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria from 1873 to 1874 and Treasurer of the Household for five years from 1880. He was later appointed Lord Steward to the Household from 1892 until 1895. In 1907 he was made Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, a post he held until his death in 1922. As a Scottish peer he was unable to sit in the House of Lords until he was created Baron Breadalbane of Kenmore, co. Perth in 1875. He later was made Earl of Ormelie, co. Caithness and Marquess of Breadalbane in 1885 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1894.
He married Lady Alma Imogen Leonora Carlotta Graham (d.1932), youngest daughter of the 4th Duke of Montrose, in 1872. There was no issue from this union and on the Marquess's death his titles became extinct, and his nephew Iain Edward Herbert Campbell (1885-1923) succeeded as 8th Earl of Breadalbane. Lord Breadalbane was a great collector of early silver. Many of the pieces in his collection were stamped with the script ownership mark Breadalbane as on the present lot. His collection was mostly dispersed in two sales, the first at Christie’s in 1926 and a second at Dowells in Edinburgh in 1935.
SIR FRANK GREEN
Frank Green inherited a fortune from his father Sir Edward Green, 1st Bt. (1831-1923) a Yorkshire ironmaster and Conservative politician. He followed his father into the business and was a prodigious collector of art and renovator of historic buildings. He saved the Treasurer's House in York, which he presented to the National Trust, together with its contents in 1930.