Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (Revd. J. Taylor Eccl. Estabt.) title officially corrected, edge bruise, good very fine £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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John Taylor, a Church of Scotland minister, joined the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment in 1880, and was promoted to Senior Chaplain on 15 September 1890. He served as Peshawar from 1888-91, and at Faisalabad from 1891-95. His final appointment in India was as Senior Chaplain, St Andrew’s Church, Calcutta, from 1896-1901.