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201 - ROYAL HOUSEHOLD- A PAIR OF GEORGE II ENGRAVED BRONZED COPPER MEMORIAL PLAQUES FOR HENRY AND MARY LONMAN (LOWMAN)DATED 1742/3 AND 1737each 45.5cm by 35The husband and wife couple served in successive Royal households at Kensington Palace to King William, Queen Anne, George I, and George II as Clerk of the Kitchen, Housekeeper and Wardrobe Keeper. Their daughter Jane Kien also served in the office of housekeeper and wardrobe-keeper at Kensington Palace. In surviving official Royal household records the surname is noted as Lowman.His tablet reads:Henry Lonman Esq; born of a good familey at Dortmund in Westphalia, Clerk of the Kitchen & Housekeeper & Wardrobe Keeper of the Palace of Kensington in the reigns of King Willm, Queen Anne & King George Ist & his present Majesty King George the 2. He married Mary the daughter of Gregory Butler of Black Hall in the county of Northumberland Gent, by whome he has left one surviving daughter Jane, the wife of Coll C Ernest Kien, died the 3rd of February 1742/3, in the 91st year of his age.Hers reads;Mary Lonman, wife to Henry Lonman & daughter to Gregory Butler, in couy of Northumberland, she was the laundress to King William, King George Ist, joynt house and warderobe keeper at Kensington with her husband to King WIlliam, Queen Anne, King George 1st, died Nov ye 29th 1737, in the 84th year of her age.
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ROYAL HOUSEHOLD- A PAIR OF GEORGE II ENGRAVED BRONZED COPPER MEMORIAL PLAQUES FOR HENRY AND MARY LONMAN (LOWMAN)DATED 1742/3 AND 1737each 45.5cm by 35The husband and wife couple served in successive Royal households at Kensington Palace to King William, Queen Anne, George I, and George II as Clerk of the Kitchen, Housekeeper and Wardrobe Keeper. Their daughter Jane Kien also served in the office of housekeeper and wardrobe-keeper at Kensington Palace. In surviving official Royal household records the surname is noted as Lowman.His tablet reads:Henry Lonman Esq; born of a good familey at Dortmund in Westphalia, Clerk of the Kitchen & Housekeeper & Wardrobe Keeper of the Palace of Kensington in the reigns of King Willm, Queen Anne & King George Ist & his present Majesty King George the 2. He married Mary the daughter of Gregory Butler of Black Hall in the county of Northumberland Gent, by whome he has left one surviving daughter Jane, the wife of Coll C Ernest Kien, died the 3rd of February 1742/3, in the 91st year of his age.Hers reads;Mary Lonman, wife to Henry Lonman & daughter to Gregory Butler, in couy of Northumberland, she was the laundress to King William, King George Ist, joynt house and warderobe keeper at Kensington with her husband to King WIlliam, Queen Anne, King George 1st, died Nov ye 29th 1737, in the 84th year of her age.
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