Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (8031 Pte. Sir A. Wells, 40th. Coy. 10th. Impl: Yeo:) second clasp loose on riband as issued, extremely fine, and a rare rank-title combination £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Sir Arthur Spencer Wells, 2nd Baronet of Upper Grosvenor Street, was born in 1866, the son of Sir Thomas Wells, 1st Baronet, Surgeon to H.M. Queen Victoria and President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his wife Elizabeth, and was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Sir William Harcourt, M.P., from 1893-95, and unsuccessfully contested the Gloucester City seat at the 1895 General Election. He served in the Boer War with the 40th (Oxfordshire) Company, 10th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry.

Sir Arthur Wells succeeded to the Baronetcy upon the death of his father on 31 January 1897. He never married, and died on 31 March 1906, heirless.