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A mixed lot of small silver items, comprising: a George IV silver travelling inkwell by Thomas Whitehead, London 1829, inscribed 'Rt. Honble Sir R Wilmot Horton', plus a continental silver box, a blue enamel-mounted cigarette case, two silver-mounted glass bottles, a silver-mounted table striker, a decanter label, a pill box and a one ounce silver ingot, total approx. weighable 11.7oz. (9) Sir Robert Wilmot Horton was a British politician at the beginning of the 19th century and was well-known for his support of allowing poor British and Irish families to emmigrate to different colonies and occupy land there. In 1831 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Order by William IV and was made Governor of Ceylon.
wiltshire, United Kingdom
