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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 619

The miniature China Medal and Legion of Honour worn by Sir R. E. Bredon, K.C.M.G., Deputy Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service during the Siege of Legations, 1900

China 1900, 1 clasp, Def. [Defence] of Legations; France, Legion of Honour, gold and enamel, unmounted, good very fine (2)

Robert Edward Bredon was born at Portadown, Ireland, in February 1846, the son of Dr. Alexander Bredon, and was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Mathematics and Classics. He passed out in First Place from Netley for the Army Medical Staff, 1867, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the 97th (Earl of Ulster´s) Regiment, April 1867.

On retiring from the Army in 1873 he joined the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, whose Inspector-General at the time was his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Hart. He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Customs in 1898, and was present at the Defence of Legations in Peking at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, 20th June to 14th August 1900. He was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1903, and the following year was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order. On the retirement of Hart in 1908, he was appointed Acting Inspector-General, and in 1910 he was appointed to the Chinese Board of Customs, but retired in deference to the wishes of the British Government. He died in July 1918. Sir Robert Bredon married Lily Virginia Banks in 1879, and they had one daughter, Juliet Bredon, the well-known author.

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