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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 1

The G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I. Group of Eight to Trooper Sir M.G. Hallett, Chota Nagpur Regiment and Indian Civil Service, Governor of Bihar and the United Provinces
a) The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Knight Grand Commander´s (G.C.I.E.) set of Insignia, sash Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 60mm, gold and enamel; Star, 92mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, with full sash riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue
b) The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Commander´s (K.C.S.I.) set of Insignia, neck Badge, 81mm including star suspension x 51mm, gold, silver, and enamel, with a fine quality central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, the motto illuminated with diamonds; Star, 84mm, silver, gold, and enamel, the motto illuminated with diamonds, with gold retaining pin, with full and miniature-width neck ribands, in Garrard, London, case of issue
c) The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Knight's set of insignia, neck Badge, 54mm, silver and enamel, lions and unicorns in angles; Star, 70mm, silver and enamel, lions and unicorns in angles, with neck riband, in damaged case of issue
d) Delhi Durbar 1911, silver
e) Jubilee 1935
f) Coronation 1937
g) Coronation 1953
h) Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (Tpr. M.G. Hallett, Chota Nag R., A.F.I.), minor official corrections to last, otherwise good very fine, the G.C.I.E. and K.C.S.I. extremely fine, the medals mounted as originally worn, together with the following documents &c.:
- Bestowal Document for the G.C.I.E., dated 1.1.1943
- Bestowal Document for the K.C.S.I., dated 9.2.1937, with Central Chancery letter
- Bestowal Document for the C.S.I., dated 4.6.1934
- Bestowal Document for the C.I.E., dated 1.1.1930
- Illuminated Bestowal Document for the Order of St. John, Knight, dated 14.7.1939, in embossed scroll-box holder
- Programme of the Ceremony on the occasion of the assumption of the Office of Governor of Bihar by Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, 11.3.1937
- Covenant of M.G. Hallett, Member of the Civil Service of India, dated 18.10.1909
- Portrait photograph of the recipient in full G.C.I.E. robes (11)

G.C.I.E. London Gazette 1.1.1943 Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Governor of the United Provinces.

C.I.E. London Gazette 1.1.1930 Maurice Garnier Hallett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Bihar and Orissa.

K.C.S.I. London Gazette 9.2.1937 Maurice Garnier Hallett, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Governor-Designate of Bihar.

C.S.I. London Gazette 4.6.1934 Maurice Garnier Hallett, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.

Order of St. John, Knight London Gazette 2.1.1940 His Excellency Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S.

Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., was born at Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire, in October 1883, the son of the Rev. John Hallett, vicar of Priors Hardwick, and was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He arrived in India in November 1907, as a member of the Indian Civil Service, and his first service posting was in Bengal as an Assistant Magistrate and Collector. In 1912 he moved to the newly created province of Bihar and Orissa (which formerly had been part of Bengal), and between 1913 and 1915 served as Under-Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa in the Political, Appointment, and Education Departments.
In 1916 Hallett was promoted Magistrate and Collector, and four years later was appointed Secretary to Government of Bihar and Orissa in the local Self-Government Department. After a short spell as Officiating Commissioner of Bhagalpur in 1929, he returned to Bihar as Chief Secretary, and was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. In 1932 he moved to New Delhi, having as Secretary, Government of India, Home Department, in which post he was created a Companion of the Order of the Star of India, and in 1936 he was elected a Member of the Council of State. In 1937 he returned to Bihar (the province by now having been split in two, with Orissa a separate entity), as Governor, for which role he was advanced Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India. Two years later, in 1939, he transferred to the Governorship of the United Provinces, in which post he served throughout the Second World War. Having been appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1943, Hallett retired in December 1945 to Winchester, Hampshire, where he died in May 1969.

Like many of his contemporaries in the Indian Civil Service, Hallett enlisted in the Auxiliary Force, and served as a Trooper in the Chota Nagpur Regiment, a cavalry unit based in Bihar, the Province in which he was later Governor.

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