Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: The Reverend S. K. Stothert, Royal Navy, who served as Chaplain to the Naval Brigade in the Crimea

Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Revd. S. K. Stothert, H.M.S. Queen.) contemporarily engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Revd. S. K. Stothert, H.M.S. Queen.) contemporarily engraved naming, pierced with straight bar suspension, all with top silver riband bars, housed in a glazed display frame, light contact marks and edge nicks, good very fine (3) £800-£1,200

Samuel Kelson Stothert was born on 31 March 1827 and was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. A leading member of the Union Debating Society, he was often in opposition to the future Marquis of Salisbury. He was ordained priest by the Bishop of Oxford in 1852, and joined the Royal Navy as a Chaplain in 1853. In 1854, as Chaplain in H.M.S. Queen, he was sent ashore in the Crimea to serve with the Navy Brigade before Sebastopol. He wrote an interesting series of letters from the Crimea, which were published in a book entitled ‘From the Fleet in the Fifties.’

In 1856 Stothert founded St. Andrew’s Church, Constantinople, before seeing further service in H.M. Ships Victoria, Britannia, Revenge, St. Vincent, and Caledonia. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1869 and served as the incumbent at Holy Trinity Church, Sliema, Malta, from 1870 to 1871, after which he returned to England. He was appointed Rector of Ordsall in 1873, and held that living until his death on 14 June 1896, aged 69.

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