CHESTERFIELD, Earl of. A handsome large 29mm silver plated livery button

CHESTERFIELD. An excellent silver plated 29mm livery button with the crest of the Earl of Chesterfield. The handsome button. by C. F. BULLIVANT, BIRMINGHAM , shows the crest of a demi lion issuing fa tower, all beneath an earl’s coronet. The widow of the 10th and last Earl, Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope [d.1917] lived on at Beningborough Hall, North Yorkshire until her death in 1857 when it became a National Trust property. The hall had been a wedding gift to them by her father, Lord Nunburnholme.   sep18/1