Pair: Second Lieutenant the Honourable R. J. Hepburne-Scott, Royal Scots

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. P. J. Hepburne-Scott.) good very fine (2) £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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The Honourable Patrick John Hepburne-Scott was born on 25 April 1899, the third son of the 8th Lord Polwarth and his wife Edith, daughter of Sir Thomas Buxton, Bt., and was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 27 March 1918, he served with the Royal Scots during the Great War. Ordained Priest, he held the livings of St. Paul’s, Wokingham, between 1937 and 1946, and of Kirkley in Suffolk between 1948 and 1955. He left the Established Church in 1955.
Hepburne-Scott married Miss Cona Fielding-Smith, the daughter of Cyril Fielding-Smith Esq., on 25 August 1925, with whom she had two daughters. He died in 1982.