Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant Sir A. V. F. Seymour, Bt., Lancashire Fusiliers, and Page of Honour to H.M. Queen Victoria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut. Sir. A. V. F. Seymour. Bt. Lanc. Fus.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, minor edge bruise to first, generally very fine, the QSA better (2) £300-£400

Provenance: Nobility and Royal Household Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2016 (when sold without the ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp).

Sir Albert Victor Francis Seymour, 2nd Baronet, was born at Kensington Palace on 1 December 1879, the only son of Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet, Master of the Ceremonies, and his wife Agnes, eldest daughter of the Revd. Hill Wickham, and was educated at Harrow. He was appointed Page of Honour to H.M. Queen Victoria on 27 October 1893, and served in that role until 2 June 1896. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on 29 March 1899, he served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant, receiving the substantive promotion on 6 November 1906.

Sir Albert Seymour succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet on the latter’s death on 10 July 1890. On returning from the Boer War he was very prominent in Society and a generous supporter of charities devoted to the acting profession, and was a close friend of the celebrated actress Dame Ellen Terry. He served as a Private in the Middlesex Regiment in the Great War and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals, and also received the Silver War Badge. He never married and died on 2 May 1949, heirless.

Sold with a CD containing various research.