Viscount Turnour – A large George III sterling silver salver, London 1783 by Richard Rugg Of oval form with a cavetto edge and beaded rim, raised upon four beaded bracket feet. The field centre engraved with a contemporaneous impaled coat of arms above the motto Esse Quam Vvideri and flanked by supporters, all surmounted by a viscount’s coronet. Fully marked to the reverse. Length – 49.9 cm / 19.6 inches Weight – 2023 grams / 65.04 ozt The arms are for Turnour impaling Chapman For Edward Turnour, 2nd Earl Winterton (1758-1831) who married on the 6th November 1781 Jane Chapman (c.1763 - d.1792) the daughter of Richard Chapman (c.1737-1767) and Jane Collin (c. 1743-1779). the son of Edward Turnour Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton (1734-1788) and Hon. Anne Archer (c. 1734-1773) who were married 13 Mar 1756. This first Earl was born Edward Garth the son of Joseph Garth (1700-1744) and his wife Sarah Gee (1695-1744). On his mother's side he was a great-great-grandson of Sir Edward Turnor (1616-1676) who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. On succeeding to the Turnour estates in 1744, Edward assumed by Royal licence the surname of Turnour in lieu of Garth. In March 1761 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway. In December of the same year Winterton was elected to the House of Commons for Bramber, a seat he held until 1769. He was further honoured when he was created Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, and Earl Winterton, in the County of Galway, in 1776, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Edward Turnour has used the Viscount’s coronet as a subsidiary title, before becoming Earl In 1788. After Jane’s death at Shillinglee Park, Petworth, Sussex, England he married, secondly, Harriet Board (c.1750-1831), daughter of William Board, in 1795 her second husband. He died on 23 April 1831 and Harriet died only two days later. Shillinglee Park was built in 1735 and revised in the 1770s. During the Second World War, the house was occupied by Canadian forces, who accidentally burnt the house down around January 1943. The shell of Shillinglee House has been rebuilt and now consists of private residences.