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 (J.G. Craik, Trial Eights, Eton 1896), 38mm (D & W 196). Extremely fine and attractively toned; in maroon fitted case with lid gilt-blocked ‘Str J.G.E. Craik’ (£50-70)

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

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Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 12 March 1980, lot 339 (part);
bt C. Eimer March 1980

Capt John Gordon Edgeworth Craik (1877-1908), of Dean’s Yard, Westminster, at Eton 1890-6; was in Finch’s defeated team in the Novice Eights, 29 July 1893. He was a lower boat choice in 1894, and was stroke in Mr Chapman’s boat which was defeated in the Lower Fours, 30 May 1895. At the Trial Eights on 30 March 1896 Craik’s boat won by a length (medal), but in the School Pulling, 20 May 1896, Craik came last in the first semi-final. Craik then went up to Merton College, Oxford, from which he joined the Seaforth Highlanders in 1900 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1901. He served in the Boer War, then subsequently was part of the Somaliland Field Force, 1903-4 and the Egyptian Army, 1905. Craik died of tropical fever contracted in Sudan at the Osborne Convalescent Home, Isle of Wight, on 21 August 1908