Lord Nelson s protégé s rare gold naval medal estimated to fetch £60-80,000 at auction
The superb and exceptionally rare small Captains Naval Gold Medal for The Battle of Lissa in 1811, awarded to Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B., Royal Navy (1780 1828), the protégé of Admiral Lord Nelson.
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.-Morton and Eden announced the forthcoming auction of the superb and exceptionally rare small naval gold medal for the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea in 1811, awarded to Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B., Royal Navy, one of Admiral Lord Nelsons most highly regarded protégés. The medal is estimated to fetch £60,000 - 80,000 when it is included in the sale of Medals, Orders and Decorations on 13 July 2021.
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The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Chris van der Kuyl and Miss Rachael Palmer as non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 June 2021.
Chris van der Kuyl is one of Scotland s leading entrepreneurs working across the technology, media, gaming and entertainment sectors. Chris is most notably co-Founder and Chairman of multiple award-winning games developer 4J Studios, best known for developing Minecraft for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo games consoles. He and fellow co-Founder Paddy Burns launched Chroma Ventures, the investment arm of 4J Studios, in 2021.
Chris is also Chairman of Puny Astronaut, TVSquared, Broker Insights, Stormcloud Games and Parsley Box Plc and sits on the boards of Blippar, Ace Aquatec, and ADV Holdings. Alongside his commercial roles, he was the founding Chairman of Entrepreneurial Scotland and is currently a member of multiple advisory and local charity boards. Elected as one of the youngest Fellows of t
Cpl. Rebecca McIntyre presents the shell casing from the ceremonial last round fired to Maj. Gen. Gerald Strickland, outgoing deputy commander for support (U.K.) of III Corps and Fort Hood, during his farewell ceremony Friday in front of III Corps Headquarters. Strickland and his wife Cathy will be going on vacation before heading back to the U.K.
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Isabel Hilton is a Scottish-born journalist and founder of China Dialogue, a non-profit website that produces bilingual stories about the environment and climate change in China. She was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2009 for “services to promoting environmental awareness in China.”
Hilton’s first exposure to China came as a teenager when, during a high school exchange year in Ohio, she challenged herself to learn Chinese. While that wasn’t very successful, she did manage to learn it upon returning to Scotland in order to matriculate in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh. She then lived in China for three years and studied at the Peking Languages Institute and at Fudan University in Shanghai.