£360
A Georgian Gold and Pearl Memorial Brooch inscribed 'Right Honourable John Hussey Lord Delaval obit. 17th May 1808 at 80', 34x18mm, 6.3g.
The second son of Captain Francis Blake Delaval (1692 – 1752) and Rhoda Apreece (d. 1759). He was educated at Westminster, Eton, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, although his degree was cut short when it was discovered that the ‘Captain Hargreaves’ living with him proved to be female. A talented industrialist, he rescued the Seaton Delaval estate after the spendthrift mismanagement of his elder brother, Sir Francis. After his first wife, Susanna, died in 1783, he took on as his mistress the sixteen year-old Elizabeth Hicks (d.1796), but from 1795 her affections were shared with Susanna Elizabeth Knight (c.1762 – 1822), whom he married in 1803.
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