Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 671

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£120

The Marquis of Lorne, Governor-General of Canada, Prize Medal, by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, obv. conjoined heads of Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne; rev. coroneted shields of the Princess and Marquis divided by a helm on an ornate field of foliage, enclosed by the legend, ‘Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat’ ((Let him who hath deserved bear the palm), 51mm., silver, unnamed, minor contact marks, good very fine £120-160

Ref. B.H.M. 3046 but not listed in silver.

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell was born at Stafford House, London on 6 August 1845, the eldest son of the 8th Duke of Argyll. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Eton, St. Andrews and Trinity College Cambridge, he was employed as Private Secretary to the Duke of Argyll in the India Office, 1868-71. In the latter year he was married to Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939), fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria. He was appointed Governor-General of Canada in 1878, a post he was to hold until 1883. Contesting Hampstead as a Unionist in 1885 and Bradford in 1892, he sat as Member of Parliament for South Manchester during 1895-1900. In 1900 he succeeded his father as 9th Duke of Argyll. The Duke, the holder of a myriad of titles and honours, died on 2 May 1914.