A George II provincial silver tankard
A George II provincial silver tankard, John Langlands I, Newcastle 1757, of baluster form with later decoration, armorial to front, 20cm high, approximately 812g
Footnote:
The arms are of RIDLEY of Heaton Hall, with a martlet for difference, indicating a fourth son. The impalement is JOHNSON (1st and 4th) quartering STAFFORD (2nd and 3rd).
On the 8th November 1810 the Revd. Richard Ridley (1782-1845), fourth son of Sir Mathew White Ridley of Blagdon, 2nd Bart, married Catherine Lucy Johnson, daughter of the Revd. Richard Popplewell-Johnson, Rector of Ashton-upon-Mersey, and his wife Penelope Stafford, daughter of John Stafford of Macclesfield who was related to the Staffords of Eyam, Derbyshire, and bro-in-law of Thomas Tatton-Egerton. Stafford became a major landowner in Macclesfield and is reputed to have had ‘fingers in a large number of pies in the north-west’. Catherine’s father, the Revd. Richard Popplewell Johnson was the local magistrate as well as a rector, and it was apparently he who ‘Read the Riot Act’ at Peterloo in 1819, and when the protesters did not disperse, authorised the Yeomanry to charge into the crowd.
