A SET OF TWELVE GEORGE III SILVER SHAPED CIRCULAR DINNER PLATESWILLIAM FOUNTAIN, LONDON 1802With gadrooned borders and engraved with a coronet above a crest25cm (9 3/4in) dimeter6492g (208.7 oz)The crest for the ELPHINSTON(E) sometime ELPHENSTON family. From 1510 the principal holder of the arms was identified as Lord ELPHINSTONE of the County of Haddington, Scotland. They were created baronets in 1510 by James IV of Scotland. The first holder Sir Alexander was killed at the Battle of Flodden (1513). At the time of assay (1802) the holder of the title and arms was John ELPHINSTONE (1764-1813), 12th Lord Elphinstone, who had inherited the title on the death of his father John ELPHINSTONE, 11th Lord, in 1794. In 1885 William Buller Fullerton ELPHINSTONE (1826-1893), 15th Lord, was created Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone, Co. Haddington in the UK peerage and it is he and his descendants who at the right to use a baron's coronet with their crest. In 1864 the 15th Lord married Lady Constance Euphemia MURRAY (1838-1922) daughter of Alexander MURRAY 6th Earl of Dunmore.The blazon of the crest: a demi lady from the girdle, richly attired, argent and gules, holding in her dexter hand a tower of the first and in the sinister a branch of laurel proper.Coronet: Baron