| Description | Includes written account about Quicksilver coach travelling between Folkestone and Canterbury with photograph, paints list, Marcus Ward and Co Ltd Christmas card, banquet menu for brigade of guards returning from Egypt 1882, newspaper articles on coaching and hunting, correspondence, auction notices, coaching timetables, 'The coach horn. What to blow and how to blow it' booklet, coaching song and poems, coach watercolour. Some items are loose.
Additional information: John Bourchier Stracey Clitherow (1853-1931) of Hotham Hall joined the Scots Guards. He served in Egypt in 1882 and from 1884 to 1889 he was ADC to General Sir R Gipps, commanding the London District and returning with the rank of Major. When on leave in South Africa in December 1895, he took part in the Jameson Raid and was taken prisoner. From 1902 to 1912 he served with the East Riding Yeomanry and commanded them for four years. He became Honorary Colonel when the Regiment was converted into the 26th Armoured Car Company. In 1915 he raised the East Riding (County) Battalion of Volunteers and from Aug 1915 to 1918 he commanded the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion Welsh Guards. He received a CBE in 1919. He also served on the East Riding County Council and was a lay rector of All Saints Church in North Cave. His funeral took place in Hotham. |