United Kingdom. A Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander Case, to General Sir Henry Murray

A presentation case for a Knight Commander set of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, constructed of a wood frame with a faux black leather exterior, the interior with a padded white satin-type lid liner maker marked “R. & S. GARRARD & CO., GOLDSMITHS AND JEWELLERS TO THE QUEEN, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT, & ALL THE ROYAL FAMILY, PANTON STREET, LONDON” with a handwritten inscription of “GENERAL HIS. HON. SIR HENRY MURRAY, WIMBLEDON LODGE, WIMBLEDON”, with a removable depressed and slotted turquoise doeskin medal bed on top of a white satin-type liner, opening with dual functional bronze hooks and dual functional magnetic metal hinges, measuring 218 mm (w) x 92 mm (l) x 40 mm (h), some material fatigue evident, in better than very fine condition.

Footnote: General Sir Henry Murray was born on 6 August 1784 in Marylebone, London. A younger son of the 2nd Earl of Mansfield, he entered the British Army and was commissioned as a Cornet in the 16th Dragoons on 16 May 1800, later transferring to the 10th and 20th Dragoons. He also served in the 26th Cameronians and the 18th Hussars, where he saw actions in the Peninsular War and was present at the Battle of Waterloo where, as a Lieutenant Colonel, he led the 18th Hussars in the final cavalry charge of the engagement. He concluded his military career as a General after being appointed Commanding Officer of the Western District in 1842. Residing at Wimbledon Lodge, the familial seat of his wife, Emily de Vismé, he died on 29 July 1860. He had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath by Queen Victoria in the Birthday Honours list on 18 May 1860, just two months before his death.