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unusual facts about Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore



Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore

Cheylesmore died in October 1891, aged 75, and was succeeded in the barony by his second son William.

The latter year, in Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Honours, Eaton was raised to the peerage as Baron Cheylesmore, of Cheylesmore in the City of Coventry and County of Warwick.

Five other Landseers fetched between £892 and £1,680, this for lot 60, Flood in the Highlands, also in his son's bequest but refused by the National Gallery, and now Aberdeen Art Gallery.


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