Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Knight Bachelor’s group of seven awarded to Major Sir Stephen P. Low, Hampshire Regiment, later Solicitor to the Board of Trade and Ministry of Fuel and Power

Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1938, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Major S. P. Low.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. S. P. Low. Hamps. R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, the last six mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £400-£500

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 9 June 1938: Stephen Philpot Low, Esq., Solicitor to the Board of Trade.

Sir Stephen Philpot Low was born on 17 September 1883, the son of Sir Frederick Low, K.C., M.P., and was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1906, he practised on the South Eastern Circuit until the outbreak of the Great War.

Low served with the 1st/9th (Cyclist) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (Territorial Force) during the Great War in India from February 1916, and then in Siberia during the Russian Intervention, arriving at Vladivostock on 28 November 1918, and remaining in Siberia until the following November. He was promoted Acting Major on 25 October 1918.

Following the Great War Low joined the Legal Department of the Ministry of Labour in 1920, and in 1934 was appointed Solicitor to the Board of Trade. Knighted for his services in the 1938 Birthday Honours’ List, from 1942 until his retirement in 1948 he additionally held the appointment of Solicitor to the Ministry of Fuel and Power. He died in Harrow on 25 October 1955.

Sold with copied research and medal roll extracts which confirm the award of all three Coronation and Jubilee Medals.