Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, a silver award medal for Rowing, type 2, unsigned, similar but with detail design differences, named (H.F. Rawstorne, House Fours, 1877), 38mm (D & W 196). Very fine (£40-50)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 633 [from W. Graham December 2000].

Henry Fielden Rawstorne, 10st 12lb, second son of Ven. R.A. Rawstorne, Archdeacon of Blackburn, was at Eton 1873-8. He was in the losing Novice Eight boat, 12 July 1876, but enjoyed success in 1877, being part of the team that placed third in the Lower Fours, 18 May, then won Lower Eights on 2 June and was in Mr Cornish’s boat which won their semi-final and then the final of the House Fours, 6-7 July 1877 (medal). He placed third in the final of the Junior Pulling, 30 July 1877, but his boat was defeated in the Trial Eights on 28 March 1878. After leaving Eton he went up to Trinity College, Oxford and qualified as a solicitor; he lived at Queen’s Gate, London SW7. Further details are sold with the lot