The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals

THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Eton College, a bronze award medal for Rowing, type 3, unsigned, similar, named (W.E. Royds, 2nd in House Fours, Eton 1893), 38mm (D & W 195). Good very fine (£25-35)

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

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Provenance:
G.D. Hinks Collection, Glendining Auction, 27 June 1994, lot 545, part;
bt Baldwin July 1994.

Wilfred Edmund Royds, at Eton 1891-3, was unplaced in the finals of the Lower Boy Pulling contests on 30 June 1892 and 29 June 1893. His elder brother, Albert Henry Royds (at Eton 1891-4) is shown in the Eton Boating Book as the bow in Mr Williams’ boat, which placed second in the final of the House Fours, 1 August 1893; perhaps the book is in error, for no other reference to A.H. Royds occurs in Eton rowing literature. W.E. Royds was a Lt in the 7th Hussars, 1900-3, and saw action in the Boer War; subsequently he served as a Captain in the Berkshire Imperial Yeomanry, 1903-5, and in the Duke of Lancaster’s Imperial Yeomanry from 1905 until the end of World War I, when he retired with the rank of Major after serving in France. He lived at Whalley Range, Manchester. Further details are sold with the lot