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| RARE POLITICAL COMMEMORATIVE PLATE R.M.BIDDULPH 1858 |
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A rare 1857 / 8 POLITICAL COMMEMORATIVE Plate made for the banquet commemorating the winning majority of RICHARD MYDDELTON BIDDULPH Esq OF Chrk Castle Feb.13.1858.
The election taking place the previous year with the conservatives winning the majority of seats 325 against 292 although with less of the votes 42.7 to 53.8 %. at the time less than 500,000 people voted.
He was the elder son of Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1761–1814) of Burghill by his wife Charlotte Myddelton of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire. He was educated at Eton College. He succeeded his father in 1814 and his mother in 1843, inheriting the Chirk estate. His younger brother was Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809–1878), an officer in the British Army and courtier.
He was Member of Parliament for Denbigh Boroughs from 1830 to 1832 and for Denbighshire from 1832 to 1835 and from 1852 to 1868.
He was Colonel of the Denbigh Militia from 1840, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire from 1841, and an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria from 1869, holding all these offices until his death.
On 31 May 1832, he married Frances Mostyn-Owen, daughter of William Mostyn-Owen of Woodhouse in Shropshire, and granddaughter of William Mostyn Owen (c. 1742–1795), a Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire. They had three sons (one of whom predeceased him) and three daughters
Retailed by C.G.Bayley of Oswesry.
Printed in brown with a central image of the ancestral home Chirk Castle, blue printed border pattern.
9 1/4 inches 23.5 cm in diameter.
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