Auction Catalogue
The group of two miniature dress medals named to Colonel Sir Donald Matheson, Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers and Clyde Infantry Volunteer Brigade
Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed; Volunteer Officer’s Decoration, V.R. cypher, silver and gold, reverse inscribed ‘Col. Sir Donald Matheson K.C.B.’, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £60-80
Sir Donald Matheson was born in 1832 and educated at Glasgow Academy, before becoming a partner in a firm of East Indian merchants in Glasgow. Commissioned Lieutenant, Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers, in 1859, he was presented to Queen Victoria at the levee at St. James’s Palace in March 1860. Promoted Captain in 1860, Major in 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1865, he was appointed C.B. in May 1881, whilst serving with the Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps. Promoted Honorary Colonel in 1882, and was advanced to K.C.B. on the occasion of Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, and was subsequently promoted Colonel in 1890 and appointed to the command of the Clyde Infantry Volunteer Brigade. A Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Lanarkshire, he died, unmarried, in Glasgow on 5 March 1901.
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