Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Signatures (15), ‘K. W. Blackburne’, on ‘Government House, Leeward Islands’ headed paper, a letter dated 20 November 1953; ‘Alan Burgoyne’ (3), letters to the Royal Society of Arts; ‘Churchill’, on a scrap of paper, attributed to Colonel C. Churchill, c.1830; ‘Francis Conyngham’, on a letter dated, Carlton House, 26 September 1822; ‘Sydney Cotton’, on a slip of paper; ‘R. Hardley-Wilmot’, note on Cavalry Club paper, dated 24 February 1902; ‘W. du G. Gray’ (2), on letters to the Royal Society of Arts; ‘Jas. Hilton, Capt., E. Coy.’, letter dated May 1884; ‘Crawford’ on notepaper; ‘W. H. Horrocks’, on letter, c.1939; signature of Edhem Pasha; ‘Bertram P. Portal, Brig. General’, on a letter to the Royal Society of Arts, dated 25 November 1920, good condition (15) £60-80

Sir Kenneth William Blackburne (1907-1980), colonial administrator; Governor and C-in-C. of the Leeward Islands, 1950-56 and Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica, 1957-62.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alan Burgoyne (1880-1929), M.P., naval historian, author.

2nd Marquis Conyngham (1797-1876).

Sir Sydney John Cotton (1792-1874), Lieutenant-General and author.

Major-General Revell Hardley-Wilmot (1842-1922).

Major-General William du Gard Gray (1856-1932).

Lieutenant Crawford of Haigh Hall, Wigan, letter addressed to Captain Hilton of Longhurst, Wigan; complete with envelope bearing postage stamp.

Colonel Sir William Heaton Horrocks (1859-1941), Hon. Surgeon to the King, 1914.

Edhem Pasha (1813-1893), Turkish General and Statesman.

Major Bertram Percy Portal (1866-1949), awarded the C.B. in 1917 for services in connection with the Irish Rebellion.