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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 166

Pair: Major P.W.G. Stuart-French, Army Remount Service, Late King's Royal Rifle Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Major P.W.G. Stuart-French.), good very fine, together with the following related items:
- A silver Prize Medallion, the obverse depicting an unsaddled horse, the reverse engraved within a laurel wreath 'The Pony Stud Book Won by P.W.G. Stuart, Esq. 1906 Cork County Show.'
- Commission Document appointing the recipient a Lieutenant in the Militia Forces, named to Pascoe William Grenfell Stuart, Gentleman, and dated 27.3.1886
- Commission Document appointing the recipient a Temporary Captain in the Land Forces, named to P.W. Stuart, and dated 20.4.1915
- Portrait photograph of the recipient (3)

Major Pascoe William Grenfell Stuart-French, born Woolwich, London, October 1868, the youngest son of Major-General William James Stuart and Eleanor French, and the youngest brother of Lieutenant Hamilton Stuart and Major Claude Houston Stuart-French; educated at Sherborne School; Commissioned Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (North Cork Rifles), Militia Forces, March 1886; served as Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson, G.C.M.G., Governor of the Windward Islands; and to Lord Lamington, G.C.M.G., Governor of Queensland, 1896-1901; served during the Great War as a Superintendent of a Remount Depot, Army Remount Service; changed his name by Royal Licence to Stuart-French in 1917 in order to inherit from his brother the estate of their uncle Thomas French; died at his home at Cobh, Co. Cork, 5.2.1954.

In civilian life he was a keen cricketer, and played two First Class matches for London County in May 1904, under the captaincy of the great Dr. W.G. Grace, against the M.C.C. at Lord's, and Surrey at the Oval, with a top score of 50.

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