Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, bronze award medals for Rowing (2), both type 3, unsigned, similar, one named (W.E. Royds, 2nd in House Fours, Eton 1893), 38mm (D & W 195) [2]. Good very fine and better (£40-50)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lots 636, 638, additionally:
First G.D. Hinks Collection, Glendining Auction, 27 June 1994, lot 545 (part).

Wilfred Edmund Royds, at Eton 1891-3, was unplaced in the finals of the Lower Boy Pulling contests on 30 June 1892 and 29 June 1893. His elder brother, Albert Henry Royds (at Eton 1891-4) is shown in the Eton Boating Book as the bow in Mr Williams’ boat, which placed second in the final of the House Fours, 1 August 1893; perhaps the book is in error, for no other reference to A.H. Royds occurs in Eton rowing literature. W.E. Royds was a Lt in the 7th Hussars, 1900-3, and saw action in the Boer War; subsequently he served as a Captain in the Berkshire Imperial Yeomanry, 1903-5, and in the Duke of Lancaster’s Imperial Yeomanry from 1905 until the end of World War I, when he retired with the rank of Major after serving in France. He lived at Whalley Range, Manchester. Further details are sold with the lot