Notes: The inscription reads:

IN TESTAMONY
OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR HIS LONG AND FAITHFUL ATTENTION
TO THEIR INTERESTS IN PARLIAMENT
AND ALSO AS A MARK OF THE HIGH SENSE THEY ENTERTAIN
OF HIS SPIRITED AND PATRIOTIC CONDUCT
IN STANDING A PROTRACTED CONTEST
IN VINDICATION OF THEIR INDEPENDENCE
AND IN SUPPORT
OF OUR GLORIOUS AND LONG CHERISHED CONSTITUTION.
THIS VASE
IS PRESENTED
TO COL THE HON. HENRY BEAUCHAMP LYGON.
OCTOBER 1831
BY A NUMEROUS AND MOST RESPECTABLE BODY
OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

The arms are those of Lygon for Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp (1784-1863), son of William Lygon, 1st Earl Beauchamp and Catharine Denn. In 1824 he married Susan Caroline, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl of St. German. In 1853 he succeeded to the Earldom.

He served in the Peninsula with the 16th Dragoons, and later became a General in the army, Colonel in succession of the 10th Hussaras and the 2nd Life Guards, and Gold Stick in Waiting to the Queen. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1816 until 1831, the year in which this silver trophy was presented, and from 1832-53 he represented West Worcestershire.

Upon his death, a local paper stated: "The death of Henry Beauchamp Lygon, fourth Earl Beauchamp will create a void which will not be readily filled up. In him the nation has lost a faithful and trustworthy soldier; the county of Worcester an ornament of which it was justly proud. As a landlord, perhaps no man was ever more attached to or beloved by his tenantry than the late Earl. Considerate, kind and affable, the transactions between them afforded occasions of mutual gratification, for to his numerous tenants a meeting with the Earl on matters of business was a meeting of pleasure."

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Henry Beauchamp Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp, by Frederick Stacpoole, after Sir Francis Grant
(c) National Portrait Gallery, London