3rd Company, 1805.
A large circular engraved medal, 48mm, silver, obverse with a laurelated head of George III, with an embossed ‘GIIIR’ below, reverse with an embossed wreath of oak, a drum before a Union flag and a City of London flag, with engraving above ‘From Sir Robert Wigram, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-Col.-Commandant, Adjudged to James Summersett’, the edge engraved ‘Best shot of the 3rd Company, 31st July, 1805.’, with pierced loop silver suspension ring, hallmarked silver, good very fine £140-£180

Major J. Lawson Whalley Collection, Sotheby’s, May 1884.

James Summerset was baptised at St. Botolph’s church, Bishopgate, London, on Christmas Day, 15 December 1781. He married at St. Mary’s Newington, on 22 July 1804 and died in 1832. He was buried at St. Botolph’s church on 29 March 1832.

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