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205 191 19th Century English School PORTRAIT OF ROBERT ATKINS, MARRIED TO CHARLOTTE GOING miniature; (oval) inscribed on label on reverse 2.25 by 1.75in. (5.7 by 4.4cm) Frame: 6.5 by 6.5in. (16.5 by 16.5cm) Provenance: Robert Atkins of Firville, Mallow; Thence to his daughter Charlotte Elizabeth who married James Robert Davis, brother of Young Irelander Thomas Davis; Thence by descent to the late Margaret Ruttledge, great granddaughter of James Robert Davis; Private collection In 1798 Robert Atkins married Charlotte, daughter and co-heiress of Philip Going, of Monaquil, county Tipperary. Their son, Reverend Philip Going Atkins-Going of Firville, succeeded to Monaquil by the will of his maternal grandfather and took the additional name of Going. In the mid 1870s, Charlotte Henrietta Atkins of South Mall, Cork, owned 502 acres in county Tipperary. In November 1877 the sale of the estate of Charlotte Elizabeth and Henrietta Louisa Atkins including Monaquil was advertised. It was purchased in trust for R.H Colles, a minor. Stephen Hastings Atkins of Forthenry married Elizabeth O’Reilly and they had a son, Reverend Stephen Hastings Atkins, who held land in the parishes of Kilnaneave, barony of Upper Ormond and Templeachally, barony of Owney and Arra, county Tipperary in the mid 19th century. Firville was the home of the Atkins family in the 18th and 19th centuries which in the early 1850s was held from John Clarke with 251 acres. Major Atkins occupied the house in 1814 and R. Atkins in 1837. Hajba writes that the Reverend Philip Atkins-Going left Firville to his unmarried daughters Charlotte and Henrietta when he died in 1861. Hussey de Burgh records Mrs Charlotte Henrietta Atkins of South Mall, Cork, owning 502 acres in the 1870s. Sold to Samuel Sheehan in 1914 this property still belonged to his descendants at the beginning of the 21st century. €200-€300 (£180-£270 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot191