An inventory of the household furniture, fixtures and effects, the property of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, as taken at the Lodge Castle Hill, near Ealing, Middlesex, [ca. 1818] / by Mr. Sheridan, clerk to Messrs. Tatham and Baily on behalf of H.R. Highness's trustees and subsequently valued by Mr. James Denew
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Lewis Walpole Library > An inventory of the household furniture, fixtures and effects, the property of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, as taken at the Lodge Castle Hill, near Ealing, Middlesex, [ca. 1818] / by Mr. Sheridan, clerk to Messrs. Tatham and Baily on behalf of H.R. Highness's trustees and subsequently valued by Mr. James Denew
Description
- Title
- An inventory of the household furniture, fixtures and effects, the property of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, as taken at the Lodge Castle Hill, near Ealing, Middlesex, [ca. 1818] / by Mr. Sheridan, clerk to Messrs. Tatham and Baily on behalf of H.R. Highness's trustees and subsequently valued by Mr. James Denew
- Creator
- Tathem and Baily
- Abstract
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Manuscript in a single hand with a room-by-room inventory of the contents of Castle Hill Lodge which was owned by Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. The inventory was taken presumably shortly after his marriage, and the contents listed reflect the high Regency taste of the owner. The Duke had purchased the Lodge in 1801 from his sister-in-law Mrs. FitzHerbert and had spent thousands of pounds for improvements commissioned from James (?) Wyatt. In addition to the detailed listing of the Duke's private rooms and the formal rooms, the inventory includes servants' quarters, outhouses, barracks, and concludes with an inventory "of sundry articles not comprised in the foregoing inventory."
- Description
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Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, was the fourth son of Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte and father of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). He married Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld on 29 May 1818.
The firm Tatham & Baily was founded in the 1780s and had premises at 14 Mount Street. The original parnership was between George Elward and William Marsh with Edward Baily joining the firm in 1793 and Thomas Tatham in 1798.
In English.
Title from item.
Some blank pages and numbering irregularities.
Binding: reversed calf.
Paper watermarked: C. Ball 1816.
Stationer's label on inside front cover: Robert Hoffman, Stationer to the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Purchased from Bonham's, Sale 16761, Lot 21. 24 March 2009.
- Extent
- 1 33 cm. v. (100 pages) ;
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- LWL Mss Vol. 180
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Inventories
Watermarks (Paper) C. Ball 1816
Booksellers' labels (Provenance) Robert Hoffman - Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Great Britain.
Middlesex (England) - Subject (Name)
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Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820
Wyatt, James, 1746-1813.
Castle Hill Lodge (Middlesex, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Royal households - Subjects
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Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820 > Homes and haunts
Wyatt, James, 1746-1813
Castle Hill Lodge (Middlesex, England)
Royal households > Great Britain
Middlesex (England)
C. Ball > 1816
Robert Hoffman
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Tathem and Baily, An Inventory of the Household Furniture, Fixtures and Effects, the Property of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 8790600
- Object ID (OID)
- 15815396