£950
A George III silver tankard by William Holmes & Nicholas Dumee, London 1774, the cover with engraved arms, Butler of Kirkland quartered with Fleetwood, gilt interior, banded body and personalised inscription to the base 'From the Legacy of Hugh Dobie, to Alexr Butler Esqre. He lived at Kirkland near Sixty Years and died there 16th of April 1775 in the Eighty Sixth Year of his Age', 20cm high, 1150g (37oz) Butler of Kirkland Hall, Chruchtown, Lancaster. Alexander (1683-1767), last direct descendant, bequeathed his estate to his great nephew. The Fleetwood Baronetcy, of Caldwich in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England by James I on 19 June 1611 for Richard Fleetwood, a direct descendant of William Fleetwood of Hesketh, Lancashire. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1614 and built the Grade I listed Wootton Lodge at Ellastone. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1780.
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