Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major the Viscount de Vesci, Irish Guards

British War and Victory Medals (Major Viscount de Vesci) very fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Ivo Richard Vesey, 5th Viscount de Vesci, was born on 15 December 1881, the son of Captain the Hon. Eustace Vesey, 9th Lancers, and his wife Constance, daughter of the 2nd Baron Wenlock. Educated at Eton, he was commissioned into the Irish Guards, and was promoted Captain on 7 January 1909. He transferred to the reserve on 4 January 1911, but was recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Great War and served as Regimental Adjutant from 15 July 1915, being advanced to Major on 11 November 1915.

Lord de Vesci married firstly Miss Georgina Wellesley, daughter of Gerald Wellesley Esq., on 24 April 1906. Divorced in 1919, he married secondly Lois, Countess of Rosse, widow of the 5th Earl of Rosse, on 15 May 1920. Upon the death of his uncle on 6 July 1903 he succeeded to the Viscountcy as 5th Viscount de Vesci, as well as the subsidiary title of Baron Knapton. He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1909-58. He died on 16 August 1958 without issue, and was succeeded to the Viscountcy by his nephew John Vesey. The title is extant, with the present viscount being the recipient’s great-nephew.