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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 42

(x) Knight Bachelor´s breast Badge, 62mm x 46mm, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1936) and enamel, the reverse engraved in large serif capitals 'R. McDougall. Cheadle Hulme', nearly extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 11.5.1937 Robert McDougall, Esq., J.P.
'For public and philanthropic services, especially to the National Trust.'

Sir Robert McDougall, of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire; born Chadderton, Lancashire, November 1871; educated at Manchester University; subsequently had a business career in the milling industry, and served as a Director of the New Peterborough Brick Company; served as a J.P. for Cheshire, and was a Member of the Dovedale Management Committee of the National Trust; Knighted for his public and philanthropic services in the Coronation Honours, May 1937; died, December 1938.

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