Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s breast star, 76mm diameter, silver with appliqué centre in gold and enamels, the reverse inscribed ‘Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, Jewellers to His Majesty and The Royal Family’, additionally engraved ‘Admiral Sir Henry Trollope’ and fitted with gold pin for wearing, good very fine
£1200-1500

Admiral Sir Henry Trollope, G.C.B., joined the Navy as a Midshipman in April 1771 and saw action in America at the battles of Lexington and Bunker’s Hill. He was Captain of H.M.S. Russell at the battle of Camperdown, was awarded the Naval small gold medal for this action and had the honour of a knighthood bestowed upon him by the King shortly afterwards. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Bath, K.C.B., on the occasion of the Coronation of King George IV, May 1820, and raised to G.C.B. in May 1831. Admiral Trollope, for many years wracked by gout and paranoia took his own life on 2 November 1839.