A FINE MID 19TH CENTURY DERBYSHIRE MARBLE MALACHITE AND HARD...

Hammer

£4,000

A FINE MID 19TH CENTURY DERBYSHIRE MARBLE MALACHITE AND HARDSTONE INLAID TABLE upon ebonised supports. 75 cm x 55 cm.. FROM THE BATH TERRACE HOTEL IN MATLOCK . Robert Watson and his wife Rosetta Jane were relatively newly married when they took over the running of the hotel from Thomas William Hesketh in early 1891. Robert had been a farmer in Scarrington, where he had been born and his father was Lord of the Manor, though it is not clear at present when he began working in the hotel trade]. However, Rosetta had experience of the industry. The couple were at the Bath Terrace for approximately three years and three of their five sons, the twins Robert and Thomas Frank and the slightly younger Hugh, were born there and baptised at Holy Trinity. The family then moved to Derby, first to the Derwent Commercial Hotel and later to the Globe Spirits Vaults in Iron Gate. The two younger sons, Edward and John, were born in Derby. Unfortunately, Robert Watson died on 27 Sept., 1899 and the family moved to Kidderminster. The elder sons emigrated to Canada where they had relatives, but the three younger sons remained in England and joined the Army in the First World War. Tragically, all three were killed; Hugh and John are commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial, and John at Thiepval