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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 153

The Order of the Companions of Honour, Member´s (C.H.) neck Badge, 68mm including crown suspension x 40mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage, otherwise about extremely fine, in Pinches, London, case of issue, together with framed bestowal document named to Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil, and dated 1.1.1949 Estimate £ 1,600-1,800Lord (Edward Christian) David Gascoyne Cecil, C.H. (1902-86), second son of the 4th Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., G.C.V.O., and grandson of the former Prime Minister; Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; Fellow of New College, Oxford 1939-69; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery 1937-51; Goldsmiths´ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford 1948-69; Appointed Member of the Companions of Honour 1.1.1949. Among his many publications are Men of the R.A.F. (1962) and his celebrated two volume biography of Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria´s first Prime Minister, The Young Melbourne (1939) and Lord M. (1954).

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