Overall height including stand: 11cm (4.2in)
Provenance: Major-General Henry Wynyard, late Coldstream Guards
0.75 inches calibre flintlock musket ball. Mounted with period manuscript note inscribed ‘'Musket ball picked up at Waterloo 22nd August 1822 picked up in the field by H B W'.
Major-General Henry Buckley Jenner Wynyard (1808-1899) was the son of the Rev Montagu John Wynyard, Chaplain to Queen Victoria and rector of Rounton, Yorkshire. He was formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Coldstream Guards. He was Brigade Major at York, Birmingham, Gibraltar and Town Major at Dublin. In 1861 he was appointed commandant of the Royal Hibrernian School, Dublin.