Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

United Grand Lodge of England, Past Grand Warden’s Badge, gold and enamel, set with small white stone, the reverse inscribed ‘The Right Honourable The Earl of Scarborough, Past Grand Warden of Free and Accepted Masons of England 1837’, fitted with integral rings for suspension and contained in its contemporary red leather fitted case, extremely fine and rare £500-600

John Lumley (later Lumley-Savile), 8th Earl of Scarborough (1788-1856). Member of Parliament (Whig) for Nottinghamshire, 1826-32, and for North Nottinghamshire, 1832-35; assumed the name of Savile after that of Lumley by Royal Licence, 1836; Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, 1839-56; he left Rufford Abbey, Co. Nottingham, and Thornhill, Co. Yorkshire (the Savile estates) to his illegitimate sons successively, the eldest of whom was created Baron Savile in 1888. See also Lots 498, 500, 599 and 661 for related items.