The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals

THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Eton College, Duke of Newcastle Medal, 1833, in gold, by W. Wyon, similar, edge named (William Ralph Inge, 1878), 36mm, 31.08g (BHM 1646; MJP p.39; Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.130). Usual light die flaw in field to left of bust, otherwise brilliant mint state, toned, rare (£220-250)

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

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Provenance:
Sotheby Auction, 25-6 April 1996, lot 821.

The Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, KCVO, FBA, DD (1860-1954), a King’s Scholar at Eton 1874-9; b. Crayke, Yorkshire, lived at Brightwell Manor, Wallingford; after Eton he went to King’s College, Cambridge, returning to Eton as an assistant master, 1884-8. He was a fellow and tutor at Hertford College, Oxford, from 1889 to 1904, vicar of All Saints’, London SW7, 1905-7 and dean of St Paul’s from 1911 until his retirement in 1934. Apart from his theological and philosophical writings, he was well known as ‘the gloomy dean’ from his controversial weekly articles on a wide range of social topics which appeared in the Evening Standard between 1921 and 1946. Further biographical details and a copy of his obituary from The Times, 27 February 1954, are sold with the lot