Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Sir W. F. Miéville, K.C.M.G., Acting Consul at Suez and Alexandria during the Egyptian War of 1882

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Mr. W. F. Miéville); Khedive’s Star 1882, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Egypt and Sudan Medals 1882-1891 from the Collection of Jack Webb.

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Miéville’s name is the only one on the medal roll for H.M’s. Consul at Khartoum, dated 2 February 1884.

Walter Frederick Miéville was born at Dorking on 17 July 1855, and was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley. He joined the Consular Service under the Foreign Office in 1874, and at the time of the outbreak of the war in Egypt he was Acting Consul at Suez and Alexandria. He was present during the bombardment of Alexandria and for his services during the Egyptian campaign he gained the Queen’s medal and Khedive’s star. Leaving the Foreign Office in 1884, he was appointed President of the Egyptian Maritime and Quarantine Board of Health, a position which he held until 1897. He was a member of the special mission to Vienna, Berlin and Paris in 1887, and represented Egypt at the Sanitary Conferences at Venice in 1892, and Paris in 1894. Created a C.M.G. in 1887, he was promoted to K.C.M.G. in 1898, and was also a Grand Officer of the Orders of Osmanieh and Medjidie, and of the Crown of Italy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and author of, amongst others, Under Queen and Khedive: The Autobiography of an Anglo-Egyptian Official, Heinemann, 1899. Sir Walter Miéville lived latterly at Hove, near Brighton, and died on 29 January 1929. He bequeathed his scrap books, ephemera and photographs to Hove Library.