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Gilt Victorian Solid Silver Sideboard Dish by J S Hunt – The dish bears an extremely important memorial inscription: “To The LORD BURGHLEY on his Marriage 1875”. Brownlow Cecil, 4th Marquess of Exeter (1849-1898), was a British peer and politician.
He married Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th Baronet, at Stamford in 1875 and the triumphal wedding is recorded by a series of engravings published on “The Graphic”, 18 September 1875.