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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 561

The K.C.V.O. group of four attributed to Sir S. H. Waterlow, 1st Baronet, a philanthropist, Liberal politician and Lord Mayor of London, scion of the well-known family 'Waterlow and Sons', engravers of currency, stamps, stocks and bonds certificates for over 150 years

Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander's breast Star, 74mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, reverse numbered '25'; Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown of Italy, Commander's neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, Third Class neck Badge, gold, silver and enamel; France, Republic, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, poincon mark on reverse, second with two minor chips to reverse enamel, third with centre detached but present, fourth with minor enamel loss to obverse centre, generally very fine (4)

K.C.V.O. London Gazette, 9 November 1902.

Sydney Waterlow, son of James Waterlow of Finsbury in the City of London, was born in November 1822 and after education at St. Saviour's Grammar School was apprenticed to a stationer and worked for the family firm of 'Waterlow and Sons' in the printing industry. Moving on into the finance and banking world, he became a director of the Union Bank of London and was a Commissioner at the Great Exhibition (1851) and also a juror at the Paris International Exhibition in 1867, for which service he was Knighted.

Becoming an alderman in 1863, he was a Sheriff of the City of London in 1866 and was then appointed Lord Mayor of London from 1872-73; in this latter year he was created a Baronet, 'of Fairseat in the parish of Wrotham in the County of Kent and of Highgate in the County of Middlesex'. A few years previously he had purchased large tracts of land in Kent, on which he built the now-demolished grand country house of Trosley Towers; another home, Lauderdale House, was donated to St. Batholomew's Hospital as a convalescent home for the poor and staffed by nurses supplied by none other than Florence Nightingale. Waterlow died in 1906 at the age of 83, and the Baronetcy passed to his son Philip.

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