Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. A. G. M. F. Howard. Rl. Lanc. Rgt.) good very fine £70-90

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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M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919

The Honourable Algernon George Mowbray Frederick Howard was born on 15 September 1874, the second son of the Hon. Frederick Howard, second son of the second Earl of Effingham, and his wife Lady Constance Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 11th Earl of Winchelsea. He served with the Royal Lancashire Regiment during the Boer War, and, transferring to the Militia, was promoted Captain on 6 June 1903. He served with the Duke of Lancaster’s Yeomanry during the Great War in France, and was awarded the Military Cross. He resigned his commission on 1 March 1921, retaining the rank of Captain.

Upon the death of his cousin, the 4th Earl of Effingham, on 6 May 1927, Howard’s elder brother succeeded to the Earldom, as well as the subsidiary title of Baron Howard (their father having died previously). By Royal Warrant of 6 December 1929, King George V conferred upon Algernon Howard the title, rank, and precedence of a younger son of an Earl, which would have been his had his late father survived the 4th Earl, and himself succeeded to the Earldom. He never married, and died on 7 May 1950.

Sold together with five copy and erased medals representing the rest of the recipient’s medallic entitlement, viz. Military Cross, G.V.R., copy; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, these all erased.