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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 144

The campaign group of three awarded to Rear-Admiral H. A. Trollope, Royal Navy

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (H. A. Trollope. H.M.S. Agamemnon.); Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, breast Badge, gold, silver and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue lugs removed from the first and with contact marks, light enamel damage to the second, otherwise very fine (3)

Provenance:
Morton and Eden, July 2019.

Henry Anthony Trollope was born in 1837, the son of Captain William Henry Trollope and Mary Arthur Trollope (née Worsop) and was also related to the famous novelist Anthony Trollope.. He joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet on 13 May 1851, and was promoted Midshipman on 13 May 1853.

Trollope served aboard Agamemnon between 10 November 1852-14 February 1855. During the Crimean War she took part in the bombardment of Sebastopol on 17 October 1854 and the shelling of Fort Kinburn, at the mouth of the Dnieper, one year later.

Trollope was promoted to Mate on 12 May 1857, Lieutenant on 19 February 1859, Commander on 3 March 1863 and to Captain on 4 April 1870. Trollope retired to half-pay on 12 June 1870, and retired as Rear-Admiral in 1887. He died in 1895 at Ganton, Yorkshire, after playing a golf game nearby.



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Sold for
£480

Starting price
£320