Medals and Decorations to the Renny-Tailyour Family

The South Africa Medal awarded to Captain E. R. Renny-Tailyour, Port Elizabeth Militia

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Ag. Capt: E. R. Renny-Tailyour, No. 2. Co. Pt. Eliz: Militia) toned, extremely fine £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals and Decorations to the Renny-Tailyour Family.

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Edward Ramsey Renny-Tailyour was born on 8 March 1851, the 2nd son of Thomas Renny-Tailyour (1812-85), late Colonel, Royal Engineers. Educated at Cheltenham College, he went to Africa and resided in Port Elizabeth 1876. He was a Volunteer in the Gaika and Galeka campaigns against the Kaffirs, attained the rank of Captain and received the War medal 1877. A football player, he was captain of the fiest eleven of the Port Elizabeth club; captain of the Zwartkop rowing club; went to De Kaap goldfields 1886; went to Swaziland and to Matabeleland 1886; was well known to Lobenguela and possessed his confidence; obtained the Lippert concession in Matabeleland of 75 square miles in 1893, which afterwards passed to a syndicate. He died of apoplexy in his Scotch cart on his way to Mangwe from Bulawayo in Matabeleland in July 1894 (Times 12 July 1894 refers).