The arms are those of Pitt with those of Eilkinson on an escutcheon of pretence, as borne by Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, born in 1736. He was M.P. for Old Sarum 1761-1763, for Okehampton 1768-1774 and for Old Sarum again 1774-1783 and in 1763 was appointed a Lord of the Admiralty. He was created a peeer in 1784. He married in 1771 Anne, daughter and co-heir of Pickney Wilkinson of Burnham, Norfolk and died in Florence, aged 55, in 1793. His only son, also Thomas, who succeeded him as Lord Camelford, was a notorious eccentric: "His was a turbulent, rakehelly, demented existence. He received in his person all the pranks and outrage of the Mohawks, Bull terriers, bludgeons, fighting of all kinds were associated with him; riots of all kinds were as the breath of his nostrils" (Lord Roseberry, writing in 1910). He died in 1804 when the peerage became extinct.

A pair of soup tureens engraved with the same arms, also by Heming, 1777, was sold in these Rooms, April 14, 1994, lot 391.