Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, a silver award medal for House Fives, unsigned [by Birmingham Medal Co], similar, named (N.R. Barrett, N. Llewelyn-Davies, 1922), 39mm. About extremely fine (£30-40)

Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 15 December 1993, lot 6 (part);
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 647 [from C. Eimer December 1993].

Norman Rupert Barrett, CBE, FRCS (1903-79), Richmond, Surrey; b. Adelaide; educ. Eton 1917-22, and Trinity College, Cambridge; senior surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital and Brompton Hospital; surgeon to King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, 1938-70; consulting thoracic surgeon to RN, 1944-70; lecturer in surgery to the University of London, 1935-70. Further biographical details are sold with the lot.

Nicholas Llewelyn-Davies, at Eton 1916-22 and a member of the Eton Society; he was Keeper of Fives 1921-2, in the Field XI, 1921 and the Eton XI, 1922. After Eton he went up to New College, Oxford and subsequently became a partner in Jessel Toynbee & Co, bill-brokers, living in London