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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 40

The C.I.E. Attributed to Sir G.W. Forrest, Director of Records, Government of India The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion´s (C.I.E.) breast Badge, by Garrard, London, gold and enamel, with top gold riband bar, extremely fine, in case of issue, with the related miniature award Estimate £ 450-500 C.I.E. London Gazette 3.6.1899 George William Forrest, Esq. Sir George William Forrest, C.I.E. (1846-1926), born Nusseerabad, India, the second son of Captain George Forrest, V.C., and educated at St. John´s College, Cambridge; Fellow of Bombay University; appointed to the Bombay Education Department, 1872; acted as Census Commissioner, Bombay, 1882; Professor of English History, Elphinstone College, 1887; Director of Records, Bombay, 1888; Director of Records, Government of India, 1891-1900; Appointed Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, 1898; retired 1900; Knighted by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace, 12.2.1913 (London Gazette 14.2.1913). For the miniature V.C. to Captain George Forrest, see Lot 289

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