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Auction: 8023 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 393

The Rare K.C.M.G., China 1900 Defence of Legations Pair to Sir R.E. Bredon, Deputy Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service During the Boxer Rebellion, Late 97th Foot a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander´s (K.C.M.G.) set of Insignia, neck Badge, 94mm including crown suspension x 73mm, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, minor enamel damage to reverse central medallion; Star, 82mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel b) China 1900, one clasp, Defence of Legations (Dep: Insp: Genl: R.E. Bredon,), officially engraved, extremely fine, with the related miniature award, and the following documents and letters: - Notification of the award of the C.M.G., dated 6.7.1903 - Grant of the Dignity of a C.M.G., named to Robert Edward Bredon, Esquire, dated 26.6.1903 - Central Chancery enclosure for the award of the C.M.G., dated 17.8.1903 - Notification of the award of the K.C.M.G., dated 23.6.1904 - Grant of the Dignity of a K.C.M.G., named to Robert Edward Bredon, Esquire, C.M.G., dated 24.6.1904 - Warrant dispensing with the Investiture of the K.C.M.G., named to Robert Edward Bredon, Esquire, C.M.G., dated 24.6.1904 - Central Chancery enclosure for the award and dispensation warrant of the K.C.M.G., dated 29.7.1904 - Letter to the recipient from the Foreign Office informing him that he is to be issued with a China Medal with clasp Defence of Legations, named to R.E. Bredon, Esq., and dated 31.12.1902 - Hand written enclosure sent with the medal, named to R.E. Bredon, Esq., and dated Peking, 12.3.1903 (3) Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 K.C.M.G. London Gazette 24.6.1904 Robert Edward Bredon, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy-Inspector-General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. C.M.G. London Gazette 26.6.1903 Robert Edward Bredon, Esq., Deputy Inspector General, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. Sir Robert Edward Bredon, K.C.M.G., was born at Portadown, Ireland, in February 1846, the son of Dr. Alexander Bredon, and was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Mathematics and Classics. He passed out in First Place from Netley for the Army Medical Staff, 1867, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the 97th (Earl of Ulster´´s) Regiment, April 1867; on retiring from the Army in 1873 he joined the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, whose Inspector-General at the time was his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Hart. He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Customs in 1898, and was present at the Defence of Legations in Peking at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, 20th June to 14th August 1900. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1903, and the following year was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order. On the retirement of Hart in 1908, he was appointed Acting Inspector-General, and in 1910 he was appointed to the Chinese Board of Customs, but retired in deference to the wishes of the British Government. He died in July 1918. Sir Robert Bredon married Lily Virginia Banks in 1879, and they had one daughter, Juliet Bredon, the well-known author.

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