Circular with gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a coat-of-arms, and later engraved with a crest below a viscount's coronet, marked on undersides, five engraved with numbers and scratchweights
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diameter
214 oz. 12 dwt. (6,674 gr.)
The arms are those of Lefevre quartering Shaw impaling Whitbread, for Charles Shaw-Lefevre (1794-1888), later 1st Viscount Eversley of Heckfield, and his wife Emma Laura (d.1857), daughter of Samuel Whitbread and Lady Elizabeth Grey, whom he married in 1817.

Charles Shaw-Lefevre (1794-1888), later 1st Viscount Eversley of Heckfield, Speaker of the House of Commons.
Acquired from S.J. Shrubsole, New York, 16 May 1986.

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Charles Shaw-Lefevre (1794-1888) was born to Charles Shaw-Lefevre and his wife Helena, and studied at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Shaw-Lefevre served as M.P. in the Whig party for Downton 1830-1831, Hampshire 1831-1832, and finally North Hampshire 1832-1857. It was during this final tenure in 1839 that he was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons, a position he would serve in until 1857, making him the second longest serving speaker in history. At the time of his retirement he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Eversley of Heckfield in County Southampton. Shaw-Lefevre married Emma Laura Whitbread (d. 1857) in 1817, and the couple had three sons, who died in infancy, and two daughters.