Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin

The Jebu 1892 campaign medal awarded to Mr George Stallard, later Chief Justice of Sierra Leone

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1892 (Mr. G. Stallard) good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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George Stallard was born on 14 January 1856, the fifth son of Josiah Stallard, of Worcester. He was educated at Rossal, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and London University, where he read law. He took the LL.B. degree at Cambridge in 1878, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in the following year. He went out to West Africa as private secretary to the Governor of Lagos, Sir Alfred Maloney, and he afterwards became Queen’s Advocate of Lagos. In 1897 he was appointed Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, and on his retirement in 1907 he was offered a knighthood which, however, he declined. He served in the Jebu campaign in 1892, and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the medal. George Stallard died at North Tawton on 21 August 1912. Sold with further research including an original obituary from The Times.