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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 246

The Historically Important M.V.O. Group of Four to Sir J.C.T. Vaughan [K.C.M.G.], Who Was Assistant Private Secretary to the High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Milner 1899, Later Political Secretary to Lord Roberts, and Held Important Positions in No Fewer Than 14 Different Countries a) The Royal Victorian Order, Member Fourth Class´s (M.V.O.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse numbered ´227´ b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, these contemporary tailor copies (J.C.T. Vaughan. Esq.) c) Coronation 1902 d) Coronation 1911, nearly extremely fine, mounted cavalry style as originally worn, sold with a substantial archive of research (4) Estimate £ 600-800M.V.O. London Gazette 28.4.1908 John Charles Tudor Vaughan, Esq., First Secretary in His Majesty´s Diplomatic Service (Copenhagen) Sir John Charles Tudor Vaughan, K.C.M.G., M.V.O. (1870-1929); Attache Diplomatic Service, The Hague, 1894; appointed Third Secretary, Athens, 1896 and held the same position for Cairo, 1897; appointed Second Secretary, Pretoria, 1899; Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Milner, 1899; Political Secretary to Lord Roberts, 1900; Assistant Secretary to Administration of Transvaal, 1901; appointed Second Secretary, Peking, 1901 and the held the same position for Constantinople (1903) and Madrid (1905); Secretary to the British Delegation and Member of Drafting Committee at Algeciras Conference, 1906; appointed First Secretary, Copenhagen, 1906; Acting Charge d´Affaires, Santiago, 1911 and for Bucharest the following year; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile, 1918-22 (C.M.G. 1918); held the same position for Latvia and Estonia, 1922-27; Commissioner and Consul-General, Lithuania, 1922-24 and also Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, 1924-27 (K.C.M.G. 1925); went on to hold the latter position in Sweden, 1927 (Order of the Dannebrog, 2nd class); Vaughan died in his post (1929) and was carried home to the U.K. in the Swedish destroyer Ehrenskold, his memorial service was held in St. Margarets, Westminister. The recipient is entitled to a Q.S.A. without clasps, however interestingly Lord Milner was entitled to the three clasps represented on Vaughan´s medal.

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