Auction Catalogue

22 June 1999

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 236

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22 June 1999

Hammer Price:
£80

Coronation 1911, the edge inscribed (Capt. H. Acton Blake, Deputy Master of Trinity House) good very fine £40-60

Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, K.C.V.O. (Cr. 1914), J.P., F.R.G.S., Elected an Elder Member of Trinity House 1900, Deputy Master 1910-26. For some years he was in command of ships of the British India Steam Navigation Company, Commander R.N.R. retired. Member of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade on the Mercantile Marine, and also on the Committee on Tonnage. Member of the Port of London Authority 1906-07. A British delegate on the International Committee for Safety of Life at Sea 1913. Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pilotage to the Board of Trade.