Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Knolly, Lieut-Col., The Victoria Cross, in the Crimea, in New Zealand, Andaman Islands, Abyssinia, Ashantee, Bhootan etc.; in India, Deeds of Daring Library, Dean & Son, 160A Fleet Street, London, vi, 127; 84; and vii, 142pp, plus black and white plates, bound in one volume, full calf, a Stubbington House Prize for Mathematics, 1892, good condition, scarce £60-80

Stubbington House School was founded as a boys' preparatory school, originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington, now part of the borough of Fareham. The school was founded, in 1841, by Reverend William Foster, as ‘Foster's Naval Academy’. The school gained a reputation, in the late 19th century, as the recognized place for coaching towards a naval cadetship and was known, affectionately, as the "Cradle of the Navy".