This ring is set with rococo inspired scrolls, decorated with a gold inscription against a white enamel background, to memoralise Robinson Morley who died at the untimely age of 22. Robinson Morley was the elder son of Thomas Morley of Brayton, North Yorkshire and his wife Phoebe Cook. Thomas had successfully proved his claim to the Robinson lands of his benefactor Thomas Robinson through a court case and his son's unusual first name probably reflects this. Robinson Morley was admitted to St Catharine's College, Cambridge in May 1751 but died just a few years later in 1756. His family had a monument by the sculptors John Fisher the elder and younger put up in the parish church in Brayton.

From the early seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, testators left money in their wills to have rings with commemorative inscriptions made and distributed to their friends and families. Simple bands enamelled with the name and life dates of the deceased were frequently made, sometimes set with a gemstone or a bezel set with a rock crystal covering a symbol such as a coffin or initials in gold wire. In the later 18th century, rings followed neo-classical designs, their oval bezels often decorated with the same designs as funerary monuments such as urns, broken pillars and mourning figures. Hair from the deceased was incorporated into the designs or set in a compartment at the back of the ring to give each jewel a uniquely personal element. Black or white enamel were favoured though white enamel was often, though not universally used to commemorate children and unmarried adults.