Miscellaneous sporting correspondence and signatures, comprising signed correspondence from sporting personalities including William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough to Louis B Frewer, on Panshanger Park letterhead; card signed in ink by Vera Merchik, the world's first woman chess champion; signed letter from Theodore A Cook, editor of The Field newspaper; Tommy Farr signed b & w image; signed 1925 Balliol College rowing Torpids dinner menu; signed note from Arthur Annesley 11th Viscount Valentia on letterhead; card signed in black ink by Owen Cathcart Jones, William Tilden, Viles and another; picture card of the Bristol rugby football team 1892-93; further signatures including Louis B. Frewer, Tom Reece, Charles B. Fry, aviator Howard Pixton, J. H. Taylor & others, (qty) William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, was an all-round sportsman who rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race, was a silver medal winner in fencing at the 1906 Intercalated Games and President of the 1908 London Olympic Games.
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Miscellaneous sporting correspondence and signatures, comprising signed correspondence from sporting personalities including William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough to Louis B Frewer, on Panshanger Park letterhead; card signed in ink by Vera Merchik, the world's first woman chess champion; signed letter from Theodore A Cook, editor of The Field newspaper; Tommy Farr signed b & w image; signed 1925 Balliol College rowing Torpids dinner menu; signed note from Arthur Annesley 11th Viscount Valentia on letterhead; card signed in black ink by Owen Cathcart Jones, William Tilden, Viles and another; picture card of the Bristol rugby football team 1892-93; further signatures including Louis B. Frewer, Tom Reece, Charles B. Fry, aviator Howard Pixton, J. H. Taylor & others, (qty) William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, was an all-round sportsman who rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race, was a silver medal winner in fencing at the 1906 Intercalated Games and President of the 1908 London Olympic Games.