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That is quite a come down from the $80,000 to $120,000 Heritage Auctions were hoping for in 2016. £13,000 GBP sounds reasonable for such an iconic piece.

I am sorry to say that I was not able to put anything into the collection from my want list this year...... Bid on a few but was always out bid..... Did get a number of singles but even though I appreciate every one there is not one that I can say top...... Did a lot more digging on the ones that I have already.....

Mike

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Like Mike, I cannot say that I added to the collection at all this year; specific fields of interest (FID/TMI/NSW) or otherwise. Also like Mike, there is always digging about those in my current custody and the little gems that occasionally surface. I would include the trio to Tomlinson KRRC in that category.
Regards to all
IL.

Dear All,
Thanks to everyone for sharing. Being relatively new to the field, the focus of my attentions (and modest wallet) is still evolving but I find myself drawn to some of the Colonial units. I was very pleased to get this QSA to Scout F. Gush of Montmorency's Scouts at the recent Spink sale. I haven't done any research on the man (in truth, I just seem to be accumulating medals that I will research "later"!) but look forward to the time when my day job doesn't expand to fill every waking hour and one can follow up on all of this history.
A Merry Xmas to all,
Johnathan

Hi

A single QSA to William Flavelle Monypenny, Editor of The Star Newspaper, Imperial Light Horse



QSA - Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal, SA 1901





William Flavelle Monypenny (7 August 1866 – 23 November 1912) was an Irish-born journalist and editor whose career was split between London and South Africa. He was also the first biographer of Benjamin Disraeli.
Monypenny was the second son of an Ulster family of Scottish descent, born in Ballyworkan, south of Portadown, County Armagh, to William Monypeny, linen manufacturer and small landowner, and Mary Ann Flavell. William spelled his surname Monypeny until 1898. He attended the Royal School Dungannon and Trinity College Dublin, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, earning his BA in 1888. From there he attended Balliol College, Oxford, but left after a year due to ill health.
Monypenny received his start in journalism in London as a contributor to The Spectator. He joined the staff of The Times in 1893, where he was an assistant to the editor, George Earle Buckle.[1] In early 1899, he accepted an offer to edit the Johannesburg Star, then an Uitlander publication in the Transvaal Republic. Monypenny was at the forefront in the subsequent political disputes leading up to the Second Boer War, and was forced to flee to Cape Colony prior to the outbreak of hostilities when a warrant of high treason was taken out against him. During the war, he served in the Imperial Light Horse and saw combat in Natal. He was also a member of the force trapped in Ladysmith during its besiegement by the Boers, which adversely affected his health. Monypenny subsequently served in Lord Milner's administration, where he was the director of civil supplies and participated in the rehabilitation of refugees after the annexation of the Transvaal.[2]
After the war, Monypenny resumed the editorship of the Star, using it to support Milner's policies. He was unable to accept the emerging practice of importing Chinese labor, however, and resigned from the editorship in 1903. Upon his return to London, he resumed working for The Times, and was appointed a director of the Times Publishing Company in 1908. It was his work with The Times which led the directors to offer to him the opportunity to write the definitive biography of the former prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, using the papers Disraeli had bequeathed to his former secretary Lord Rowton. Though Monypenny's relative obscurity led some to question his selection, the first volume was critically praised upon his publication in October 1910. Monypenny only completed one more volume before dying of heart failure in 1912; the project was completed by George Earle Buckle, who wrote an additional four volumes.[2] His work The Two Irish Nations; an Essay on Home Rule was published posthumously in 1913.


The Times History p596

“On the occupation of Johannesburg the troops, who had out-marched their supplies, were forced to make heavy demands on the food-stuffs in the town before resuming their advance. In order to husband the stores remaining, the Military Governor appointed Mr. Monypenny, Imperial Light Horse, Director of Civil Supplies. Steps were at once taken to prevent the export of goods from the town, and to re-establish the market, so as to get in produce from outside.”

CP Hoogenhout, beskou as die eerste Afrikaanse digter, het lekker daarmee draak gesteek in sy gedig, “De Dappere Moneypenny”:

Moneypenny, Pennymoney,
Was jy dan zoo bang?
Het jou broekie al gebeef,
Dat ons jou zou hang?

Is hom hartjie dan zoo klein?
Eerst praat jy zoo groot.
Nou jou maters al kom help,
Raak jy in die nood.

Druk jou hoedje stevig vast,
Laat jou sluier zak;
Anders kom ‘n K……meid
Jou dalkies nog pak.

The Times History p336
On the same day Mr. Smuts, in pursuance of the policy of reckless defiance, decided to arrest Messrs. Monypenny and Pakeman, editors of the Johannesburg Star and the Leader, and Mr. Hosken, the chairman of the Uitlander Council, on a charge of high treason, in order to strike terror into the hearts of the Uitlander community, and to show to the British Government how it intended to treat those Uitlanders who ventured to clamour for redress of grievances. Mr. Monypenny and Mr. Hosken escaped, but Mr. Pakeman was seized and imprisoned. Two days later the charge was reduced to an offence under the Press Law, and he was liberated on bail, undoubtedly owing to Mr. Fischer's representations.






Regards

Adrian

jan808 wrote: Dear All,
Thanks to everyone for sharing. Being relatively new to the field, the focus of my attentions (and modest wallet) is still evolving but I find myself drawn to some of the Colonial units. I was very pleased to get this QSA to Scout F. Gush of Montmorency's Scouts at the recent Spink sale. I haven't done any research on the man (in truth, I just seem to be accumulating medals that I will research "later"!) but look forward to the time when my day job doesn't expand to fill every waking hour and one can follow up on all of this history.
A Merry Xmas to all,
Johnathan

Well done on Gush Johnathan. I must confess to being tempted when he came up in the room. We have all been where you are - accumulate first and research a little bit later - but not too much later!!