Best shot the 3rd Company, 31st July, 1805.’, with pierced loop silver suspension ring, hallmarked silver. A large circular engraved medal, 48mm, silver, obverse with a laurelated head of George III, with an embossed ‘GIIIR’ below, reverse with an embossed wreath of oak, a drum before a Union flag and a City of London flag, with engraving above ‘From Sir Robert Wigram, Bart., M.P., Lieut.-Col.-Commandant, Adjudged to James Summersett’, the edge engraved ‘Best shot of the 3rd Company, 31st July, 1805.  VF/GVF

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Medal sold as part of the Major J. Lawson Whalley collection at Southeby, Wilkinson and Hodge on the 5th of May 1884, again as part of the Hasting Irwin collection London 1910.

Information below originally supplied.

James Summerset was baptised at St. Botolph’s church, Bishopgate, London, on Christmas Day, 15 December 1781. He married at St. Mary’s Newington, on 22 July 1804 and died in 1832. He was buried at St. Botolph’s church on 29 March 1832.