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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 302

The Mutiny Medal to the Original 'Champagne Charlie', Lieutenant, The Viscount Royston, Later 5th Earl of Hardwicke Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Viscount Royston 7th Hussars), nearly extrememly fine Estimate £ 800-1,000 Lieutenant Charles Philip (Yorke), 5th Earl of Hardwicke (1836-1897), 'Champagne Charlie', styled Viscount Royston untill 1873, born Wimpole Hall, Norfolk; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined as Cornet 7th Hussars, 1857; Lieutenant 11th Hussars, 1859; retired Commission 1861; Member of Parliament for Cambridge 1865-73; Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridge 1866; Member of the Privy Council 1866; Comptroller of the Royal Household 1866-68; Honorary Lieutenant Royal Naval Reserve, 1876; 'Lord Royston the eldest son, an easy-going, happy-go-lucky, brilliant member of the social world in the sixties and seventies, known for a time as 'Champagne Charlie,' was not slow in dissipating the fortune that his father had been at such pains to build up for him.......I can see him now in faultless attire, with his carefully arranged black satin tie, his beautiful pearl pin, his lustrous hat balanced at a certain angle on his well-brushed hair, his coat sleeves always showing precisely the same amount of white cuff, his pleased-with-himself-and -the-world-expression.' [Reminiscences, by Constance, Lady Battersea, p153 refers]

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