British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LONDON, Haymarket, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 1842, bone, her majesty’s theatre above date, rev. named (Earl of Kilmory, Box 17, 1), 37mm, 5.38g (W 332). Very fine and very rare; pierced for suspension £300-£400

Francis Jack Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (1787-1880), known as Viscount Newry from 1822-32 when he succeeded to the title granted to his father, a veteran of the 1798 Irish Rebellion, in 1822; married Jane Gun-Cuninghame of Mount Kennedy, co Wicklow, 1814; MP for Newry 1819-26, High Sheriff of Down 1828; resided at the family estate, Shavington, Cheshire, 1831-9; scandalised Victorian society by eloping with his 20-year old ward, Priscilla Hoste (†1854), daughter of Lady Harriet Walpole, in 1843, by whom he had a daughter after setting her up in an adjoining house with an underground tunnel between the two residences in Twickenham.