Orders, Decorations and Medals

Shropshire Society in London Life Saving Medal, Captain Matthew Webb left, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to The Designer upon the Institution of the Decoration’, edge inscribed (Captain Adrian Jones, M.V.O., R.B.S. President) 51mm., silver, with ring suspension and ribbon, with silver brooch bar, extremely fine £300-400

Adrian Jones was born on 9 February 1845, the fourth son of James Brookholding Jones of Ludlow. After being educated at Ludlow Grammar School he served 23 years in the Army - in the 3rd Hussars, Queen’s Bays and 2nd Life Guards - seeing service in the Abyssinian War 1868 (medal); the 1st Boer War 1881, and the Nile Expedition (medal and star). A noted Sculptor, he was awarded the M.V.O. 4th Class in 1907 on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue of the Duke of Cambridge at Whitehall for which he was responsible. His other works include the Royal Marines Monument, St. James’s Park, the Carabineers’ Memorial, Chelsea Embankment, and the Peace Quadriga on Constitutional Hill Arch. In 1935 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Captain Jones died on 24 January 1938.