A VERY LARGE ROSE BOWL, OMAR RAMSDEN, LONDON 1933. This larg...

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A VERY LARGE ROSE BOWL, OMAR RAMSDEN, LONDON 1933. This large and heavy bowl was commissioned by Lord Hyndley as a gift for his daughter Elizabeth (Betty) on her 21st birthday, 4th September 1933. The bowl has cast and applied decorations, honours and badges relating to the life of 1st Viscount John Scott Hyndley GBE (1883-1963), a British Businessman and Industrialist. During the First World War he was a member of the Coal Controllers Export Advisory Committee and provided valuable assistance in the supply of coal to Italy. After the war he was awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy in gratitude.

Hyndley was director of the Bank of England between 1931 and 1945 and became the first chairman of the National Coal Board upon its creation on 1st January 1947. Knighted in 1921, he was created a Baronet in 1927 and Baron in 1931, then Viscount in 1947. In 1953, he was master of the Clothworkers' Company.

Betty served in the Women's Royal Navy Service and in 1943 launched the British cargo ship named in her honour. In 1947, the SS Betty Hindley (sic). became the last vessel to be lost due to enemy action, on 7th October she detonated an unexploded WWII contact mine, just off Scarborough.

33.5 cm.

3379 g.