Armchair
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Rush, Wood
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Shute Barton, Devon
NT 262817
Summary
Chair; Armchair of dark stained wood with balustroid uprights, spindle back, carved front stretcher, rush seat.
Provenance
belonged to Speak Lenthall (1591-1662). Born in Henley-on-Thames; educated in Oxford; lawyer - Lincoln's Inn; called to bar 1616, Bencher 1633. Recorder of Woodstock; bought Burford Priorty 1634; MP for Woodstock; Speaker of House of Commons 1640 ((Long Parliament); active Parliamentarian, MP Gloucester and Oxfordshire; Speaker 1659. Royalist 1660 Restoration.