Covent Garden, Royal Italian Opera
Covent Garden, Royal Italian Opera, ivory pass, 1884, legend in four lines, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA/ COVENT GARDEN/ LIMITED, Col. Napier Sturt, rev. signature of manager, 1884/ EVERY NIGHT/ BOX 1 & 2/ 5, 54 x 37 mm, pierced for suspension. Good very fine. £Sold
Colonel Charles Napier Sturt (1832â€"1886). Soldier and politician.
In 1851 Sturt joined the Grenadier Guards, in 1854 he served with 3rd Battalion in the Crimea War where he was severely wounded at the Battle of Inkerman.
On returning from the war he stood as Member of Parliament for Dorchester and was elected in a by-election in July 1856.] He was MP for Dorchester 1856 to 1874
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