The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals

THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Eton College, a silver award medal for Rowing, type 3, unsigned, similar, named (R.O. Kerrison, Trial Eights, Eton 1891), 38mm (D & W 196). Brilliant mint state (£80-100)

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

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Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 1 February 1973, lot 212 (part);
bt R.J. Henson February 1973.

Lt-Col Roger Orme Kerrison (1873-1917), Tattingstone Place, Ipswich, 11st 6lb, at Eton 1887-91. Kerrison began his rowing at Eton in Junior Sculling, 1889. In 1890 he was in the winning boat in the Lower Eights, 16 May, and the Lower Fours, 30 May. He placed second out of 50 starters in the final of Junior Sculling, 21 June, and fourth in the final of Junior Pulling, 5 July. At the Trial Eights over the Datchet course on 16 March 1891 he was part of Pitman’s winning team (medal), while he came third in the final of School Sculling, 16 May, and won the final of the School Pulling, 1 June. He rowed for Eton in the Ladies’ Cup at Henley, 7-9 July, but the team was defeated by Balliol in the final. Kerrison went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1891, but the Third Trinity team, for which he rowed in 1892, was narrowly defeated in the final of the Ladies’ Cup at Henley that year. However, he was part of the Leander Club team which secured the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1893 and he rowed for Cambridge in the University Boat Races of 1893 and 1894. In 1896 he joined the Loyal Suffolk Hussars (Yeomanry), and subsequently commanded the regiment. While attached to the Australian Royal Artillery and Staff, he was killed in action on 18 September 1917 and is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, dép. Pas-de-Calais. Further details are sold with the lot