HANAU, CIRCA 1780/1790, WITH MARKS RESEMBLING THOSE FOR PARIS

Count Semyon Romanovich Woronzow (1744-1832) was an Ambassador of the Russian Czars to the English Crown. His daughter Catherine (1783-1856) became the second wife of George Augustus Pembroke, 11th Earl of Pembroke. Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet (1738-1819) was a prominent Scottish physician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, whose clientele included many of the leading figures of the day, including the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, and the Prime Minister William Pitt.