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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 129

Three: Captain The Earl of Clonmell, 1/1st Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery - Brooke's Battery

1914 Star (Capt: The Earl of Clonmell. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Earl of Clonmell.), good very fine (3)

Rupert Charles Scott, 7th Earl of Clonmell was born on 10 November 1877, a descendant of John Scott, the famous Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland, who was created the 1st Earl in 1793 of Clonmell, the largest settlement in County Tipperary.

Having been a successful cattle breeder on his estate in Ireland and having trained and run racehorses in both the United Kingdom and United States, he failed to gain a seat in Parliament when defeated as the Liberal candidate in 1909.

During the Great War he served in France from 31 October 1914. He applied for his 1914 Star in November 1917 and listed The Riffle House, Mermaid St, Rye, besides 20 Hertford Street, London and Eathorpe Hall, Leamington as his addresses. Lord Clonmell died in 1928 and was married with issue of two daughters. He was a member of the Kildare Street Club, Dublin, the Royal St. George Yacht, Kingstown; White's, Garrick, and National Liberal, London.

The title went extinct in 1935, as for he died without male issue, he was succeeded by his seventy-five-year-old uncle, who became the 8th - and final - Earl.

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£450