A matched set of twenty two Regency mahogany dining chairs, after a design by Thomas Hope, circa 1815, each curved cresting rail inlaid with stylised greek key motifs, above shaped uprights and an overstuffed seat, on sabre shaped legs Sir William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke, 10th Baronet (21 June 1872 - 11 June 1964) of Wheatley Hall, Doncaster. By direct descent to the current owner From family accounts it is said that Sir William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke moved from Wheatley Hall to Upper Hall in Ledbury, Herefordshire in 1907, then to Ranby Hall in Lincolnshire in 1910. Cooke finally settled at Wyld Court in Berkshire where his interests in animals and horticulture were pursued.