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[Bookplate for Edward Loveden]

This heraldic bookplate consists of an escutcheon, gules (red), with a bend, cottised vert (green) and sable (black). The escutcheon is charged with four sinister hands, roughly at centre chief, sinister, dexter, and centre base. Above the escutcheon is a straight wreath charged with a heraldic tiger, sejant (sitting position).

Heraldry

Loveden, Edward

Still Image

Edward Loveden Loveden (c. 1749-1822) was a wealthy politician, landowner, and soldier, who built the still standing Buscot Park in 1779. Buscot Park was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956 and according to the Buscot Park and Farington Collection website, Edward Loveden Loveden's career was very active: he served as High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1781-2, was MP for Abingdon (1783-96) and Shaftesbury in Dorset (1802-12), and was a magistrate for Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Oxfordshire. He was also a lieutenant-colonol of the Berkshire militia. In 1793, he co-founded what is now known as the Royal Agricultural Society and also presided over the parlimentary committee responsible for improving navigations and routes along the Thames to Gloucestershire. Edward Loveden Loveden married three times. He married Margaret Pryse (d. 1784) in 1773, and then a daughter of a wealthy London merchant, and a third time to a woman named Anne Lintall.
References:
1) Heraldic Dictionary. University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Special Collections. 31 July 2000 . Accessed 12 Jan. 2008 at http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/index.htm.<br>2) The Manual of Heraldry. 7th Ed. London: Virtue Brothers & Co., 1866.
3) "History: Edward Loveden Loveden." Buscot Park and the Faringdon Collection. Accessed 21 Jan 2008 from http://www.buscot-park.com/index.html<br>4) "Obituary - Rev. S. Wilson Warneford, D.C.L, May 1855." Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XLIII. Ed. Sylvanus Urban. London: Jon Bower Nichols and Sons, 1855. 528. Original owned by The University of Michigan. Digitized by Google 16 Aug. 2005. Accessed 16 Jan. 2008 from http://books.google.com/books?id=EO-R3EsTRYYC&dq=%22edward+loveden+loveden+esq%22<br>5) "Obituary." Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XIII. Ed. Sylvanus Urban. London: Jon Bower Nichols and Sons, 1840. Original owned by The University of Michigan. Digitized by Google 10 Aug. 2005. Accessed 16 Jan. 2

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2026-02-07

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