ANDREW ROBERTSON (1777-1845) JOHN ASHLEY WARRE

ANDREW ROBERTSON (1777-1845) JOHN ASHLEY WARRE, FRS, MP; HIS WIFE SUSANNA WARRE, NEE CORNWALL pendants, both signed, inscribed and dated on the backing paper, J A Warre Esq MP/Mrs J A Warre By A Robertson 34 Gerrard St 1819, with the artist's blue ink stamped monogram, ivory, oval, 8 x 6.5cm, contemporary faded velvet mounts, unframed (2)John Ashley Warre (1787-1860) of Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset was the son of John Henry Warre of Bloomsbury and Belmont Lodge, Hertfordshire and his wife Braithwaite Warre, nee Ashley of Barbados. He married three times, firstly in 1819 Susanna Warre (1797-1820) daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon, Middlesex. The Warre family had long been settled at Hestercombe near Taunton, their principal seat until the 18th century. Commercial interests included the port trade. A prominent Whig politician and reformer, Warre was a founder member of what would shortly become the RSPCA.