Auction Catalogue
Commission Documents, Orders, Certificates, Papers, Envelopes, etc., relating to the Lords Howard of Effingham, 41 items, lightly mounted on paper, contained in a massive brown leather bound volume, 504 x 480mm., with gilt on red leather title on spine, ‘H.M. Commissions, Orders, &c. 1737-1897’, with ‘Effingham’ bookplate on inside front cover, some staining and wear to leather cover, overall good condition £400-500
Documents include: Commission Document (fragment), appointing Francis P. Howard of Effingham, Captain of a Company of Grenadiers, Third Foot Guards, bearing the signature ‘George R’; Commission Document, appointing Francis Earl of Effingham, Captain and Colonel, 2nd Troop, Horse Grenadier Guards, dated 21 June 1737, bearing signatures including that of George II; Commission Document appointing ‘K. A. Howard, Gent.’, Ensign, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, dated 21 April 1786, bearing signatures including that of George III; another of appointment to Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards, dated 25 April 1793; another of appointment to Adjutant, Coldstream Guards, dated 11 December 1793; another of appointment to Captain Lieutenant, Coldstream Guards, dated 30 December 1797; another of appointment to Major of Brigade, Foot Guards, dated 14 April 1798; another of appointment to Captain, Coldstream Guards, dated 25 July 1799; Document appointing Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Alexander Howard, Deputy Inspector-General of Foreign Corps, dated 18 February 1802; another of appointment as Aide de Camp to the King, dated 1 January 1815; Commission Document, appointing Kenneth Alexander Howard, Second Major, Coldstream Guards, dated, 4 August 1808; another of appointment to Major-General, dated 25 July 1810; Document appointing Major-General K. A. Howard, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, dated 25 September 1814; Commission Document, appointing Kenneth Alexander Howard, Lieutenant-General (on the Continent of Europe only), dated 14(?) July 1815; Document appointing Major-General Sir Kenneth Alexander Howard, K.C.B., Colonel of the 100th Foot, dated 21 January 1816; another of appointment as Colonel of the 70th Foot, dated 24 October 1816; Commission Document of appointment to Lieutenant-General in the Army, dated 12 August 1819; Document appointing Lieut-General Kenneth Alexander Lord Howard of Effingham, G.C.B., Colonel of the 3rd Foot, bearing the signature of William IV, dated 30 October 1832; Commission Document of appointment to General of the Army, dated 18 February 1837; Letter, from Horse Guards, 3 January 1815, appointing Major-General Sir Kenneth Alexander Howard a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath; Letter, giving permission to wear the insignia of the Knight Commander of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, dated 15 May 1815; Commission Document, appointing The Hon. Henry Howard, Lieutenant, Southern Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry, dated 19 April 1832; another of appointment to Captain, same regiment, dated 17 September 1833; Document appointing The Right Honorable Henry Earl of Effingham to be Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York; Commission Document appointing Henry Lord Howard, Cornet in the Queen’s Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry, dated 17 May 1858; Document appointing Henry Howard, Lord Howard, to be Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Oxford, dated 1 December 1876; Document appointing The Right Honorable Henry Alexander Gordon Baron Howard of Effingham to be Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County of York, dated 21 October 1897.
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