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Lot Essay
Lord Henry Murray was the 6th son of John, 3rd Duke of Athol K.T., (1729-1774). Lord Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Kent, of Liverpool, on 8 December 1786 having left the Navy the previous year. The pap-boat was almost certainly commissioned to commemorate the birth of their first child, Richard Murray, who was born on 19th October 1787. Following his departure from the Navy, Lord Henry entered the Army as an ensign in the Seventy-eighth Highlanders. By 1793 he had risen to the rank of Captain in the Manx Fensibles. In 1798 he led the regiment as Lieutenant Colonel during the Irish Rebellion of that year. He was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, the sovereignty of which his father had sold to the British Government in 1765 for £70,000. It was at Douglas on the Isle of Man that Lord Henry died in 1805 where a monument was raised to his memory.
Pap-boats were used for feeding infants and invalids the mixture of bread, sugar and milk or water, known as pap. The form developed around 1710 and the majority were manufactured in either silver, pottery or porcelain. Only two other gold examples are recorded, one of 1788 also by Phipps and Robinson and another of 1815, by John Lambe.
Pap-boats were used for feeding infants and invalids the mixture of bread, sugar and milk or water, known as pap. The form developed around 1710 and the majority were manufactured in either silver, pottery or porcelain. Only two other gold examples are recorded, one of 1788 also by Phipps and Robinson and another of 1815, by John Lambe.