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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 726

A 'Civil Division' C.B. Group of Three to County Inspector James Gibbons, Royal Irish Constabulary and 'Gibbons Pasha', Egyptian Police, Later Chairman of the Prison Commissioners Ireland
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Civil Division, Companion's (C.B.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1898), with integral riband buckle
b) Egypt 1882-89, undated, no clasp (Dep: Inspr. Genl. Gibbons Pacha. Egyptn. Police.)
c) Khedive's Star 1884-6, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3)

C.B. London Gazette 9.6.1899 James Samuel Gibbons, Chairman of the Prison Commissioners Ireland

James Samuel Gibbons Esq., C.B., was born in May 1850, the son of County Inspector J.R. Gibbons, Royal Irish Constabulary, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Obtaining a cadetship in the Royal Irish Constabulary in the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1868, he was employed in Egypt in the organisation of the Egyptian Police from 1883-86, was made a Pasha, and awarded the Order of the Medjidieh Second Class. Returning to Ireland in 1886, he served as a County Inspector of the R.I.C. and was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Cork. Appointed Chairman of the General Prisons Board of Ireland in 1895, he was subsequently Chairman of the Prison Commissioners Ireland, and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in June 1899. He died at home at Foxrock, Co. Dublin in April 1914.

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