Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An M.V.O. 4th Class pair awarded to Captain George H. W. Walsh, Grenadier Guards and Imperial Yeomanry, the 4th Baron Ormanthwaite

The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘351’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Capt. Hon. G. H. W. Walsh, 34th Coy. 11th Imp. Yeo.); together with a mounted pair of miniature dress medals, held within Spink, London, leather case, extremely fine (4) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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George Harry William Walsh was born in 1863, the third son of the 2nd Baron Ormanthwaite (died 1920) and Lady Katherine Emily Somerset (died 1914), daughter of the 7th Duke of Beaufort. Educated at Wellington College, he was gazetted a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, serving 1885-93. He was A.D.C. to the Governor-General of Canada (Lord Stanley of Preston), 1890-93.

He served in the Boer War as a Captain in the 34th (Middlesex) Company, 11th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 1900-01; was appointed an Honorary Captain in the Army in 1902 and was a Captain in the Reserve of Officers, 1902-13. Awarded the M.V.O. 4th Class 13 July 1905 as Comptroller to the late Earl of Derby on the occasion of the King’s visit to Knowsley. He succeeded his brother as the 4th Baron Ormanthwaite on 13 March 1937; was D.L. and J.P. for Radnorshire. Lord Ormanthwaite died on 27 October 1943. With copied research.