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192 A school photograph of Lord Burleigh at Eton College circa 1919, 8 by 11in., by Hills and Saunders, Eton, mounted with a manuscript legend below identifying the pupils, running to a second sheet which has been mounted behind, Lord Burghley can be seen standing in the back row, four from the right; sold with a photocopy of a letter from the Eton College librarian confirming the identity of Lord Burghley and dating the photograph to circa 1919; and two photocopies issued gratis by the National Portrait Gallery of photographic portraits of Lord Burleigh (4)
42 Etonians are portrayed in this photograph together with their Housemaster W. Hare. After schooling at Eton and Le Rosey in Switzerland, David George Brownlow Cecil, later 6th Marquess of Exeter, and Baron Burghley Lord Burleigh went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Lord Burghley was still a Cambridge student when he competed in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games as a 19-year-old. His greatest moment, however, came at the proceeding Olympic Games at Amsterdam in 1928 when he won gold in the men’s 400 metres hurdles. He later added a silver as a member of the 4x400m relay team at Los Angeles in 1932.
Lord Burleigh was the British Olympic captain in 1932 and 1936, and later Chairman of the Organising and Executive Committee of the 1948
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London Olympic Games. He also held the posts of President of the Amateur Athletics Association for a period of 40 years between 1936 and 1976, the International Amateur Athletics Federation from 1946 to 1976, and the British Olympic Association from 1966 to 1977, Chairman from 1936 to 1966. In the movie ‘Chariots of Fire’ Nigel Havers’s character Lord Andrew Lindsay was partially based on Lord Burghley, being a young athlete still at Cambridge whilst competing in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. £200 - 300
193 A signed photograph of the American diver Pete Desjardins the only competitor in Olympic history to have won both the platform and springboard competitions at one Games achieved at Amsterdam in 1928,
an 8 by 6in. period b&w condition beautifully signed in ink and dedicated to ‘Jean’ [Jean Gilbert, British Olympic diver] and inscribed WISHING YOU EVERY SUCCESS AND LOADS OF HAPPINESS ALWAYS, excellent condition £120 - 180
195 A 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games participation medal, in bronze designed by J C Wienecke, nude male & female athletes on a podium holding a flaming torch above the Olympic flame, reverse with Nike over Marathon Tower, the shield of Amsterdam between two hemispheres £300 - 400
194 The autograph of the Italian fencer Ugo Pignotti who won a gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, dated 31st March 1932 and being a short typescript receipt to Nedo Nadi for the sum of 300 Lire, signature in ink
Ugo Pignotti was a member of the foil team that won gold at Amsterdam. He went on to win two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1932 as a member of the foil and sabre teams. £160 - 200
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