SCOTT (Sir Percy, 1853-1924, from 1913 1st Baronet, Admiral )

Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor of London, refusing an invitation as he will be in Gibraltar, 1 side 8vo., 21 Hans Mansions, S.W., 16th February traces of laying down on verso

Sir Percy invented the night-signalling apparatus used in the Royal Navy. He served between 1873 and 1900 in the Ashanti War, the Congo Expedition, the Egyptian War, South Africa and China.

Item Date:  1907

Stock No:  13246      £25

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