The arms are those of Bruce quarterly with those of Brudenell impaling those of Hill, as borne by Charles, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury, born in 1773, who succeeded his father in 1814. He was M.P. for Marlborough in five Parliaments between 1796 and 1814 and in 1821, as a recipient of one of the coronation peerages of George IV, he was created Marquess of Ailesbury. He married in 1793 Henrietta Maria, eldest daughter of the 1st Lord Berwick, who died in 1831. He married as his second wife, in 1833, Maria Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Charles Tollemache. This celebrated lady, who lived till 1893, was "for nearly 60 years the 'evergreen Maria Marchioness', sprightly, gay and universally popular ... a constant frequenter of London parties and country race courses, and was to be seen in Hyde Park with flaxen hair (or wig), driving two ponies, generally preceded by two outriders" (Complete Peerage).

Garrard's Gentlemen's Letter no. 9 records the newly-succeeded Earl's prodigious purchases of plate from 1814 onwards. In May 1815 he rented a dinner service, paying over 100 for the loan of plates, tureens and dishes, including "the carriage and porters to Grosvenor Square and back." In 1816 he purchased what amounted to a complete "laying-down" of plate, including "two large sized richly chas'd Soup Tureens" for 433 2s, 4 matching "large size Sauce Tureens, covers and linings" and the present tureens:

April 26, 1816 oz. dwt @ s d

To 4 smaller Sauce Tureens with 163 19 14/6 118 10 3
covers and linings to correspond
Engraving 8 coats-of-arms, supporters 3 12
and Coronets & 8 double Crests

By June of that year the Earl had spent a total of 3,105 13s 6d on table silver. [VAM 9L9, folios 134-137, reproduced courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum and Garrard's, London.]