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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 159

The Grant-of-Arms awarded to Captain G. C. Colquitt, late 5th Dragoon Guards, who appears to have changed his name on several occasions and had an especial interest in family pedigree

Grant-of-Arms, vellum with ink inscription headed by the Colquitt/Goodwin Coat of Arms and those of the College of Arms, Garter King of Arms and Norroy King of Arms, signed by those individuals (Sir William Woods and Francis Martin respectively) in the lower margin and complete with encased wax seals, the whole within its black leather case decorated with gilt crowns and 'V.R.' cyphers, case somewhat distressed, vellum in good clean condition

Goodwin Charles Colquitt was born on 25 June 1815, son of Goodwin and Anne Colquitt; his father, Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Colquitt C.B., served in the 2nd Battalion 1st Foot Guards at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, where he commanded a Company and was noted for his great gallantry on 18 June 1815 when he threw a live French artillery shell outside of his square before it exploded.

After education at Eton, Goodwin junior followed in his father's footsteps, appearing as a Captain in the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards by 1842. In this year he applied to the College of Arms for a Grant-of-Arms, which notes his change of name to Goodwin Charles Goodwin. In December 1860 he changed his name once again (by Royal Licence; London Gazette 14 December 1860 refers) this time to Goodwin Charles Colquitt Craven and had married Georgina Maria Craven, of Brockhampton Park, in 1841. A Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, but with additional links to Lancashire, Captain Craven died in 1899.

For his father's Waterloo Medal, please see Lot 12.

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