Nicholas Courtauld Rayner (3 March 1938 – 21 December 2017) was a British Army officer with the 11th Hussars and later jewellery expert and auctioneer. In 1965 he briefly held the record for the Cresta run. He was head of Sotheby's Geneva office and received international publicity when he sold the Duchess of Windsor's jewellery collection there in 1987. Selected publications The jewels of the Duchess of Windsor. Vendome Press in association with Sotheby's, New York, 1987. (With John Culme) References 1938 births 2017 deaths People educated at Eton College 11th Hussars officers People from Dawlish British auctioneers Sotheby's people Jewellery designers 20th-century British Army personnel