Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, a bronze award medal for Rowing, type 4, unsigned [by Birmingham Medal Co], similar, named (A.G. Fenwick, Trial Eights, Eton 1920), 39mm (D & W 195). Obverse edge knock at 2 o’clock, otherwise good very fine (£25-35)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 641 [from P.D. Mitchell November 1990].

Arthur George Fenwick, 10st 1lb, from Banbury, Oxon, at Eton 1916-21. He coxed Mr de Havilland’s I boat in Junior House Fours, May 1916, and stroked the same boat in Junior House Fours, May 1918. Fenwick was the bowman in the defeated Dark Blue team at the Trial Eights over the Datchet course, 18 February 1920 (medal); he was unplaced in the second semi-final of the School Pulling, 1 April 1920. In 1921 he went up to Caius College, Cambridge, then joined the Indian Army in 1923, becoming a Lt in 1925 and serving as a Captain in the Second World War. Further details are sold with the lot