A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household

The R.V.M. awarded to Mr. H. H. Trodd, House Steward to Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, for the occasion of H.M. King Edward VII’s visit to Halton House, June 1909

Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., bronze (H. H. Trodd, June 26th. 1909) contemporarily engraved naming, in case of issue, gilded, minor edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Herbert Henry Trodd was employed as House Steward to Mr. Alfred de Rothschild at Halton House, his country home in Buckinghamshire, where the latter lived and entertained lavishly between 1883 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. H.M. King Edward VII was a frequent guest, both whilst Prince of Wales and as Sovereign, and awarded Trodd the Royal Victorian Medal following his visit on 28 June 1909. The signatures in the visitors’ book for the week-end of 26-28 June 1909 include not only the King’s, but also that of Alice, the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel, the most famous of his mistresses.

Following Alfred de Rothschild’s death in 1918 Halton Hall was sold to the Air Ministry, and subsequently served as the Officers’ Mess, R.A.F. Halton.

For the medals to Alice, the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel, see Lot 114.