Legacy
After Meyrick's death in 1848, Goodrich Court and the Meyrick collection passed to his cousin Augustus Meyrick, who exhibited the collection in 1869 at what is now the Victoria and Albert museum. He disposed of the collection to a number of private purchasers after first offering it to the British Government, as well as donating some objects to the British Museum. Many of the important items in Meyrick's collection were purchased by the antiquarian, Augustus Wollaston Franks, who later also donated them to the British Museum. Some of the best pieces of his collection can also be found in the Wallace Collection in London.
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