Frank Ash Yeo

In 2006, a statement from Swansea City Council declared that the Mayoral Chains Of Office would continue to adorn the incumbent for select official duties following a planned refurbishment, to cost in the region of £50,000 GBP.

The Mayoral chains, a 'gift' to the city in 1875 from industrialist and Liberal Member of Parliament, Frank Ash Yeo, were once valued over £100,000 and are presently the subject of scrutiny from a number of notable antiquities specialists.

Plaid Cymru group spokesperson Darren Price - in consultation with direct heir and descendant of the benefactor, Mr. Nicholas James Cory Yeo Knott-Goodwin - suggested an alternative to the expenditure of a taxpayer-funded restoration would be to preserve, and archive the jewels for public view in a museum.

In further communications between Mr. Knott-Goodwin and Swansea City Council representatives, it was divulged that the private journals of Frank Ash Yeo - now held by great granddaughter Leila Cory Goodwin - would detail more closely the exact relationship between Mr. Yeo and Swansea Council circa his election to Mayor, and the relinquishing of holdings related to his erstwhile partnership, the Cory-Yeo group of collieries.

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