Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Crimean campaign group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel George, Lord Bingham, Coldstream Guards, Aide-de-Camp to his father, Field Marshal George Charles Bingham, G.C.B., 3rd Earl of Lucan, in command of the Light and Heavy Cavalry Brigades at Balaklava

Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (George Lord Bingham, Lt. & Captn. Coldsm. Gds. A.D.C. Cav. Dn.) contemporary engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel with gold centres, severe enamel damage; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, some enamel damage; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, mounted as worn, nearly very fine or better (6) £4,000-£5,000

Glendining’s, July 1997, when withdrawn from sale and sold by private treaty. Lord Lucan’s British and foreign orders were sold in the same sale (Lots 139, 140, 234, 268 and 326) and subsequently offered by Spink in July 1998. The campaign groups of both Lord Lucan and his son Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Bingham were sold in these rooms in September 2002.

George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, was born on 8 May 1830, the son of Lord Bingham, later 3rd Earl of Lucan. He was educated at Rugby and joined the Coldstream Guards in December 1848. He served in the Crimean campaign of 1854 as Aide-de-Camp to his father, Lord Lucan, commanding the Cavalry Division. He was made brevet Major in July 1855, and promoted Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1860, but retired the following year. He was M.P. for Mayo, 1865-74; Vice-Admiral for Connaught, 1889; H.M.’s Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, 1901, and bore the Sceptre and Dove at the Coronation of Edward VII. He succeeded his father in 1888 to become the 4th Earl of Lucan.

For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 470.