YORKSHIRE, Doncaster, oval ivory (2), Ladies Stand, Erected 1858, backs named (No. 39, J.C. Athorpe, Esq; No. 40, J.C. Athorpe, Esq), both 50 x 37mm, 8.22g and 8.18g (W –; D & W –; cf. DNW 176, 284) [2]. About very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension, with contemporary blue ribbons £300-£400

John Carver Middleton, later Carver-Athorpe, JP (1803-80), Dinnington Hall, Sheffield; educ. Trinity College, Cambridge; assumed the name Athorpe by royal sign-manual, 3 August 1831, under the Will of his maternal uncle; married Mary Gibbon FitzGibbon (c. 1811-63), of Ballyseeda, co Limerick, 8 February 1831, and had 13 children; Capt, West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry, 1843; inherited both Leam Hall, Woodland Eyam, Derbyshire and Morthen Hall, Whiston, W. Riding of Yorkshire, in 1849; one of his sons-in-law, Sir Edward Walter, KCB (1823-1904), founded the Corps of Commissionaires.

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