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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 409

Pay Warrant, 1818, a receipt for 61 days pay for Lieut General Lowry Cole and two Aides de Camp serving on the Continent, £289 4s 10d, according to a warrant issued by the Duke of Wellington, signed by General Lowry Cole, a printed form for 'Staff on the Continent' with manuscript insertions, some toning, very fine.

Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, GCB (1772 - 1842 ), Cornet in 1787, and served in the West Indies, Ireland, and Egypt. Served as Brigadier General in Sicily and commanded the 1st Brigade at the Battle of Maida in 1806. Major-General in 1806, Lieutenant-General in 1813 and full General in 1830; received the Army Gold Cross with four clasps. Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath on 2 January 1815.
Member of Parliament for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, and represented Fermanagh in 1803.
Governor of Mauritius from 1823 to 1828. Governor of the Cape Colony 1828 to 1833.

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