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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 1

The K.C.M.G., C.B. Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J.G. Baldwin, Royal Artillery, Later Consul-General to Romania; British Representative on the Rhine, Elbe, and Odar River Commissions; and Commissioner, Procurator, and Plenipotentiary on the European and International Commission of the Danube
a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander's set of Insignia, neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Star, silver, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, minor red enamel damage to one arm of cross on Star, with neck riband
b) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Civil Division, Companion's (C.B.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1903), converted for neck-wear, with neck riband
c) India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1889-92 (Lieut. J.G. Baldwin No.6 Bo: Mt. By.)
d) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt: J.G. Baldwin. R.G.A.)
e) King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt: J.G. Baldwin. Imp: Yeo:)
f) Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, traces of lacquer, good very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with the following related items:
- The recipient's related miniature awards, mounted as worn
- Various Medallions relating to the European and International Commission of the Danube, some named to the recipient
- Bestowal Document for the K.C.M.G., named to Lieutenant-Colonel John Grey Baldwin, C.B., and dated 3.6.1929, together with Central Chancery enclosure and a copy of the Statues of the Order
- Document appointing the recipient as Consul-General for the Kingdom of Roumania, dated 1.10.1913, and signed 'George RI' and 'E. Grey'
- Document appointing the recipient as Representative on the European and International Commission of the Danube, dated 1.4.1924, and signed 'George RI' and 'Ramsay MacDonald'
- Document appointing the recipient Commissioner, Procurator, and Plenipotentiary of the Commonwealth of Australia, dated 10.10.1930
- Document appointing the recipient Commissioner, Procurator, and Plenipotentiary of the Dominion of New Zealand, dated 14.10.1930
- Document appointing the recipient Commissioner, Procurator, and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, dated 5.11.1930
- Letter of congratulations on the award of the K.C.M.G. from the Foreign Secretary, dated 30.5.1929, and signed 'Austen Chamberlain'
- Letters to the recipient on the occasion of his retirement from the Foreign Secretary, dated 1.5.1933, and signed 'John Simon'
- The recipient's Passport
- Various letters and documents relating to the European and International Commission of the Danube
- Portrait photograph of the recipient, housed in a embossed leather photograph frame, together with various other portrait photographs
- A large number of official photographs relating to the European and International Commission of the Danube
- Newspaper cuttings containing the recipient's obituary
- La Commission Européenne du Danube 1856-1931, a substantial volume on the Commission's work, 526 pp, with photographs, maps, and diagrams, heavily bound in blue leather, in damaged slip-case (lot)

K.C.M.G. London Gazette 3.6.1929 Colonel John Grey Baldwin, C.B., Member of the various Commissions set up under the Treaties of Peace of 1919 for administering international rivers.

C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1912 Major John Grey Baldwin

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Grey Baldwin, K.C.M.G., C.B. was born in January 1867, and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in September 1885, he served in Burma on the Tonhon and Wuntho Expeditions, and in operations of the North East Column, 1889-92. Promoted Captain in March 1896, he served with the Artillery during the Boer War, and was wounded in the leg at Moedewil, 30.9.1901; during his convalescence he served as Assistant to the Military Governor in Johannesburg. For his services in the Boer War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10.9.1901) and promoted Brevet Major. In 1902 he entered the Consular Service, and was appointed Consul-General of Lourenco Marques in 1904; Consul-General of French West Africa in 1907; Consul-General of Liberia in 1909; and Consul-General of Romania in 1912, a post which carried with it the important work of British Representative on the European Commission of the Danube. When Romania was over-run by the Germans in the Great War, Baldwin returned to Britain via Russia, and was employed by the Foreign Office for the remainder of the War. In 1919 he went to Paris to sit upon the Inter-Allied Committee which drew up the Statutes of the European and International Commission of the Danube, and of the new Rhine, Elbe, and Odar Commission, which were set up under the Treaty of Versailles, and subsequently he was appointed British Commissioner on each separate River Commission and British Commissioner, Procurator, and Plenipotentiary on the European and International Commission of the Danube. Appointed a K.C.M.G. in 1929, he retired in 1933, having spent 20 years working on International Waterways. He died in April 1939.

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