A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Capt. Hon. H. W. Fitzmaurice, 72nd. Highlanders.) minor bruise and die flaw to edge, nearly extremely fine £500-600

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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The Honourable Henry Warrender Fitzmaurice was born on 7 July 1828, the second son of the 5th Earl of Orkney and his wife Charlotte, daughter of the 3rd Baron Boston. Receiving a commission as Ensign into the 72nd Highlanders on 19 March 1847, he was promoted Lieutenant on 28 December 1849, and Captain on 4 August 1854. In August 1857 he left with his Regiment for India, having not served in the Crimea, to help quell the great Sepoy Mutiny, and received the Indian Mutiny Medal with clasp for Central India. He retired by sale of his commission in 1860.

Fitzmaurice married Miss Sarah Roose, only daughter of George Roose Esq., of Bryntirion, North Wales, and they had three sons and one daughter. Appointed High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of Anglesey in 1866, he died on 12 January 1875. His second son, Edmund Walter Fitzmaurice, succeeded his uncle (the recipient’s elder brother) as 7th Earl of Orkney on the latter’s death on 21 October 1889. The title is extant.

For the Crimea Medal group to the recipient’s brother, the Hon. A. T. Fitzmaurice, see Lot 105.