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Walter Jones (polo)

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46: 67: 330: 183:(purchased for 2,100 guineas) he hesitated. It was sold to R.A. Tatton before being auctioned, yet again at Christie's, in 1928 when it was bought, yet again by Agnew's, and sold to Jones. Along with other drawings by British artists, the collection passed to Jones' widow, and was sold after her death at Christie's on 3 July 1942. Though 258: 142:, Cheshire (until 1923) and Hurlingham Lodge in Fulham, London. He married Maud, the widow of George Littelton Dewhurst (another Lancashire cotton magnate) of Beechwood, Lymm, Cheshire and 384: 374: 379: 394: 364: 359: 157:
Jones, a cotton-broker, was an important collector of first editions and watercolours and enjoyed big-game hunting, fishing and polo. He purchased
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of 1795 to a late Venetian watercolour of circa 1841 and included two of the 1817 Rhine series of watercolours painted for
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still fetched the highest price in the sale, the wartime date explains the relatively low prices,
66: 172: 143: 102:, the son of William Charles Jones and Lucretia Elizabeth Jones. His father was the owner of 207:, probably Turner's greatest patron, and other British, German, Swiss and Italian subjects. 158: 131: 343: 204: 176: 163: 147: 123: 111: 122:, primarily for the "Rugby" team, but also his own Blakemere team. He represented 195:
1100 guineas. The seventeen other Turners in the sale, in addition to the two
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in 1912, who had purchased it at the sale of the collection of
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for 2,700 guineas, but although he was interested in
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Index

Walter Jones (disambiguation)
Polo
1908 London
Team competition

English
polo player
Warrington
Jones Brothers Cotton Mills
Leigh
Harrow School
Jesus College, Cambridge
polo
Great Britain
1908 Summer Olympics
Hurlingham
Blakemere Hall
Northwich
Aberuchill Castle
Rifle Brigade
First Battle of the Somme
J. M. W. Turner
The Blue Rigi
Agnew's
John Edward Taylor
Christie's
Walter Fawkes
Polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics
"Walter Jones"
"Jones, Walter John Henry (JNS884WJ)"

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