THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Eton College, Duke of Newcastle Medal, 1833, in gold, by W. Wyon, similar, edge named (Phillip Gillespie Bainbrigge, 1908), 36mm, 33.64g (BHM 1646; MJP p.39; Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.130). Usual light die flaw in field to left of bust, otherwise brilliant mint state, rare; in red fitted case of issue by Wyon, 2 Langham Chambers, London W (£220-250)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 9 December 1981, lot 459.

Phillip Gillespie Bainbrigge (1890-1918), from London, a King’s Scholar at Eton from September 1903 to summer 1908. He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequently taught at Shrewsbury School. He was killed in France on 18 September 1918, as a 2nd Lt in the 5th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers, attached to the Welsh Regiment. He is buried at Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle, dép. Pas-de-Calais