VICTORIA'S 76TH BIRTHDAY MENU FOR A CELEBRATION OF THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY

Printed menu card for a dinner at the Royal Navy Club with Admiral Sir Erasmus OMMANNEY (1814-1904, Arctic Explorer) as President and Major-General Sir Charles WARREN (1840-1927) listing the many courses inside the folded card, there are courses of Soup, Fish, Entrees, Vegetables, Roasts and Desserts, 3 sides 8vo., printed in blue and gold with the Royal Navy Club's crest at the head, Whitehall Rooms, The Hotel Metropole, London, 24th May

Warren was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in British South Africa. Previously he was police chief, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888 during the Jack the Ripper murders.

Item Date:  1895

Stock No:  41452      £125

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