The Order Insignia worn by Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington, KCVO: The Royal Victorian

The Order Insignia worn by Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington, KCVO: The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander's neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt, silver and enamels, badge numbered C688, star numbered 202, minor enamel blemishes, about extremely fine; Prussia: The Order of the Crown, neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt, silver and enamels, about extremely fine. [4]

Humphrey Napier Sturt was born in 1859 and educated at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. He served in the Dorset Yeomanry as a Lieutenant, and was later a long-standing Conservative MP for East Dorset. He was father to The Honorable Gerald Philip Montague Napier Sturt of the Coldstream Guards (see lot 81) and The Honourable Napier George Henry Sturt of the RAF (see lot 80)