Description

A four draw nickel silver telescope with a baleen covered barrel, the first draw signed, ‘A. Ross, London’ and also, ‘Earl of Shelburne’.

The extended length of the telescope is 21″ ( 53.5 cm ) and 6″ ( 15.5 cm ) when closed with a main lens of 35 mm diameter. The magnification is 20 x.

The telescope gives excellent views and is in excellent condition complete with leather storage case and sling.

Andrew Ross worked from 1830 – 1859.

Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne, Knight, (7 January 1816 – 5 July 1866), styled Lord Henry Petty – FitzMaurice until 1836 and Earl of Shelburne between 1836 and 1863, was a British politician. He was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 

Born Lord Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, he was the second son of Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa Emma, daughter of Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. On the early death of his elder brother the Earl of Kerry in 1836 he became known by the courtesy title Earl of Shelburne.

On 18 August 1840, he married Lady Georgiana Herbert (a daughter of the 11th Earl of Pembroke), but she died six months later. He then married Comtesse Emily de Flahault (born in Edinburgh, she was the eldest daughter of the French general and statesman, Charles, Comte de Flahaut by his wife, Margaret. Her half-brother was Charles, Duc de Morny, the half-brother of Emperor Napoleon 111 through her stepmother, Hortense de Beauharnais. She was also a grand-daughter of the Prince de Talleyrand).