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JULIAN BYNG, Esq.
A LARGE VICTORIAN SCULPTURAL CENTREPIECE, with naturalistically chased rockwork base and with Richard Cour de Lion on horseback wearing chainmail and holding holding a sheild and with two foot soldiers and a crossbowman, by Robert Garrard, 1861, on ebonised wood plinth applied with two silver plaques, one engraved with inscription, the other with coat-of-arms
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A LARGE VICTORIAN SCULPTURAL CENTREPIECE, with naturalistically chased rockwork base and with Richard Cour de Lion on horseback wearing chainmail and holding holding a sheild and with two foot soldiers and a crossbowman, by Robert Garrard, 1861, on ebonised wood plinth applied with two silver plaques, one engraved with inscription, the other with coat-of-arms
21in. (53.5cm.) high
(311ozs.)
The inscription on the base reads 'Presented on his retirement to Sir W. Miles Bart 24 YEARS COLONEL OF THE North Somertset Cavalry BY OFFICERS WHO HAD THE HONOR (SIC) OF SERVING UNDER HIS COMMAND'
The arms are those of Miles impaling Gordon for Sir William Miles, 1st Bt, (1797-1878) of Leigh Court, Somerset and his wife
Catherine, daughter of John Gordon, whom he married in 1823. He was Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions for thirty-five years and M.P. for East Somerset, Chippenham and Romney and was created a Baronet in 1859. His 7th daughter, Florence Louisa (d.1862) married Rev. Hon. Francis Edmund Byng, later 5th Earl of Strafford (d.1918)
21in. (53.5cm.) high
(311ozs.)
The inscription on the base reads 'Presented on his retirement to Sir W. Miles Bart 24 YEARS COLONEL OF THE North Somertset Cavalry BY OFFICERS WHO HAD THE HONOR (SIC) OF SERVING UNDER HIS COMMAND'
The arms are those of Miles impaling Gordon for Sir William Miles, 1st Bt, (1797-1878) of Leigh Court, Somerset and his wife
Catherine, daughter of John Gordon, whom he married in 1823. He was Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions for thirty-five years and M.P. for East Somerset, Chippenham and Romney and was created a Baronet in 1859. His 7th daughter, Florence Louisa (d.1862) married Rev. Hon. Francis Edmund Byng, later 5th Earl of Strafford (d.1918)