Auction Catalogue

18 & 19 July 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 711

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19 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£1,300

Three: Sir Frederick W. R. Fryer, K.C.S.I., Indian Civil Service

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Mr. F. Fryer, Depy. Commisr. Punjab); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Mr. F. W. R. Fryer C.S.) small official correction to one initial; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, together with ribbon bar for K.C.S.I. and the two campaign medals, good very fine (3) £600-700

Frederick William Richards Fryer was born in 1845, son of F. W. Fryer, of West Moors, Dorset. He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1864; Barrister, Middle Temple, 1880; Deputy Commissioner, Punjab, 1877; Commissioner Central Division Upper Burma, 1886; Financial Commissioner of Burma, 1886; Acting Chief Commissioner of Burma, 1892-94; Officiating Financial Commissioner of the Punjab, and Additional Member of the Viceroy’s Council, 1894-95; Chief Commissioner of Burma, 1895-97; Lieutenant-Governor of Burma, 1897-1903; created K.C.S.I. 1904. Sir Frederick Fryer died on 20 February 1922.

Sir Frederick married, in August 1870, Frances Elizabeth Bashford in Westminster and had three sons: Frederick Arthur Bashford (known as Arthur), Francis Lyall (known as Frank) who was killed at Belmont, and Herbert Neville who died in his infancy. For the medals of the two elder sons see Lots 744 and 765.