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Printed Books & Manuscripts, Autographs & Documents, Maps & Prints, The Bookbindery of Faith Shannon (APR21) Wed, 7th Apr 2021 Lot 203 Estimate: £100 - £150 + Fees Edward VIII (1894-1972). A visitors' book Edward VIII (1894-1972). King of the United Kingdom January – December 1936. A visitors' book, seemingly associated with the Training Ship Exmouth, containing over 200 signatures by various individuals, many of them associated with the Royal Navy, dating from July 1926 to February 1943, including Edward, Prince of Wales (the first signatory, from a Prize-giving Day on 6th July 1926), Sir William Goodenough (1867-1945, Admiral of World War I), Viscount Doneraile (1866-1941), Binnie Hale (1899-1984, Actress), Sasha (1892-1953, Alexander Stewart; Photographer), William Bridgeman (1864-1935, 1st Viscount Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty 1924-29), Eric Fullerton (1878-1962, Admiral), Sir Sidney Meyrick (1879- 1973, Admiral), Sydney Chaplin (1885-1965, Actor, the elder half-brother of Charles Chaplin. Sydney Chaplin had previously served on the T S Exmouth), Aubrey Chaplin (first cousin of Charles Chaplin), Mrs. L. E. Chaplin (presumably the wife of Aubrey), Princess Vera Constantinova of Russia (1906-2001, Great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I and a childhood playmate of the younger children of Tsar Nicholas II), Princess Xenia Shakhovsky (1902-1981, Wife of Count Mikhail Tolstoy-Miloslavsky from 1922-36), George Riddell (1865-1934, 1st Baron Riddell, Solicitor and newspaper proprietor who represented the British press barons at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I), Sir John Kelly (1871-1936, Admiral of the Fleet; two signatures), Sir Algernon Willis (1889-1976, Admiral of the Fleet who saw action at the Battle of Jutland; nine signatures), Thomas Goff (1867-1949, Politician, great-grandson of King William IV), Henry Parker (Vice Admiral, Admiral Commanding Reserves 1931-33), Masa Matsudaira (daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira (1877-1949) Japanese diplomat, Ambassador to Britain 1929-35; Masa’s sister, Setsuko, became Princess Chichibu and sister-in-law of Hirohito), Sir Dudley Pound (1877-1943, Admiral of the Fleet), Herbert Disney Vaughan-Hughes (1893-1962, Fleet Navigating Officer, Home Fleet, 1932) and many others including a number of signatures of Margaret Kerr, wife of Ralph Kerr (1891-1941, Captain, died whilst in command of HMS Hood when it was sunk during the Battle of the Denmark Strait in 1941), their daughter Jane and son, Russell, a tank commander who was killed while fighting in Burma in 1945, a few leaves loose, all edges gilt, original morocco, slightly rubbed, oblong small folio (18 x 23cm) Qty: 1.

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