Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An interesting group of four awarded to Sir Henry Hayden, C.S.I., C.I.E., Director, Geological Survey of India, and co-author of Sport and Travel in the Highlands of Tibet

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Asst: Supdt. H. H. Hayden. Geo: Survey of India) minor official correction to rank; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (H. H. Hayden Esqr. Supdt. Geol. Survey Deptt.); Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, complete with ribbon buckle; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, these last two unnamed as issued, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (4) £1400-1800

Sold with a scarce first edition of Sport and Travel in the Highlands of Tibet by Sir Henry Hayden and César Cosson, Richard Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1927, with introduction by Sir Francis Younghusband, Meinertzhagen book plate and signed on the flyleaf by L. Meinertzhagen.

Henry Hubert Hayden was born at Londonderry on 25 July 1869, and educated at Hilton College, Natal, and Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Geological Survey of India in 1895 and accompanied the Tirah Expeditionary Force, 1897-98. In 1903 he was selected a member of the Tibet Frontier Commission as geologist. His services were lent to the Amir of Afghanistan, 1907-08, and he served as Director of the Survey of India from 1910 to 1920. During the Great War he did high public service in mobilising and developing the mineral resources of India. He was created C.I.E. in 1911, C.S.I. in 1919, and was knighted in 1920. Hayden left India in the summer of 1920, and went home by South Africa and the Belgian Congo. He spent the season of 1921 climbing in the Alps, including Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and spent the summer of 1922 in Lhasa and Tibet with his old guide and travelling companion, César Cosson. They died together from a fall whilst climbing in the Alps on 28 August 1923.