Coins and Historical Medals

Winchester College, The King’s Medal, c. 1830, a silver award by S. Clint, bust right, rev. tomb of William of Wykeham, edge un-named, 49mm (BHM 1560 [dated to 1831]; E 1240)
Winchester College, The Queen’s Medal, 1837, a gold award by B. Wyon, bust left, rev. tomb of William of Wykeham, edge named (Carolus Aluredus Cripps, Scholaris, mdccclxx), 49mm, 60.27g (BHM 1800)
Winchester College, The Queen’s Medal, 1837, a silver award by B. Wyon, bust left, rev. tomb of William of Wykeham, edge named (Carolus Aluredus Cripps, Scholaris, mdccclxxi), 49mm (BHM 1800) [3].
Gold medal with a reverse edge knock at 2 o’clock and associated area of flan slightly bent, all medals bright from past cleaning and with some associated surface marks, otherwise about extremely fine, the silver medals toned; sold with the remains of an old display felt with the initials of the recipients £6,000-£8,000

The Cripps Family, and by descent

Henry William Cripps, QC (1815-99), barrister; b. Preston, Cirencester; educ. Winchester and New College, Oxford; President of the Oxford Union 1837; called to the Bar at Middle Temple, 1840; moved to West Ilsley 1851, then Wallingford and finally to Parmoor, Marlow, 1860; Recorder of Lichfield, 1852; became a QC in 1866; Chancellor of the diocese of Oxford and chairman of the Buckingham Quarter Sessions
Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, KCVO, PC, KC (1852-1941), barrister and politician; b. West Ilsley; educ. Winchester 1866-71, then New College, Oxford; called to the Bar at Middle Temple, 1877; became a QC in 1890; Unionist MP for Stroud, 1895-1900; appointed Attorney-General to the successive Princes of Wales, 1895-1914; Vicar-General of York, 1900, and of Canterbury, 1902; Unionist MP for Stretford 1901-6; knighted 1908; MP for Wycombe 1910-14; Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords, 1924 and 1929-31. A staunch advocate of peace, who considered the decision to declare war on Germany in 1914 a disaster, he sympathised with conscientious objectors. At the behest of Ramsay MacDonald, Cripps crossed the floor from the Conservative to the Labour party in 1923. His youngest son, Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), followed him into Parliament and served as ambassador to the USSR during World War II.