1865–1941

Introduction

October 21, 1865, Chris­ti­an­ia (now Os­lo), Nor­way.

Died: April 8, 1941, Up­per Church Street, Bath, Eng­land.

Buried: Church of St. George, Beck­ing­ton, So­mer­set, Eng­land.

Biography

Vernon was the son of Rev­er­end Sam­uel Crow­ther-Bey­non, rec­tor of Bec­ken­ham, Kent, and hus­band of Ma­ry Gif­fard (1856–1952, mar­ried Prince Ed­ward Is­land, Ca­na­da).

He was edu­cat­ed at Well­ing­ton and Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Cam­bridge, and was then called to the bar.

He lived for ma­ny years in Rut­land, East Mid­lands, where he was sec­re­tary for the So­cie­ty of An­ti­quar­ies for Rut­land.

He had a spe­cial in­ter­est in old coins, and served for a num­ber of years on the Coun­cil of the Brit­ish and Roy­al Nu­mis­ma­tic So­cie­ties.

Sources

Music

  1. Budapest

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Crow­ther-Bey­non (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),