A positively attributed 'Trio' of miniature Royal Commemorative Medals: Arthur Purling Middleton (1884-1966), Indian Civil Service. variously Magistrate, Collector & Commissioner, Bihar & Orissa Province

- Delhi Durbar Medal 1911. Silver issue
- Jubilee Medal 1935
- Coronation 1937

Arthur Purling Middleton, son of Hastings Burton Middleton (a Justice of the Peace, and from 1904 High Sheriff for Dorset) and Charlotte Lucia Middleton (nee Goodford) was a native Bradford Peverell, Dorset, England, where he was born on 14 October 1884. Like his father before him, Arthur was educated at Eton College and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford. He briefly held a commission in the 1st Buckinghamshire Volunteer Battalion, 1903-05, and was appointed to the Indian Civil Service - whose members were irreverently referred to as the 'Heavenly Born' - in 1909. During his first 2 years service in British India, he held an appointment as Assistant Magistrate and Collector in East Bengal. He married Meta May Maude Briscoe Birch, the daughter of J. B. Birch, a District Superintendent of Police in India, at Hopetown, near Darjeeling, on 12 October 1910. Arthur spent most of his career successively as a Magistrate, Collector, and then Commissioner in Bihar and Orissa, and retired in 1945. Emigrating first to Kenya, and then to South Africa, he died in Pietermaritzburg in 1966, and his wife died there in 1973

Arthur Middleton's younger son, Lieutenant Bernard Hastings Middleton, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, was 'Killed-in-Action' on 27 August 1943, in Sicily, during the Italy Campaign

See item codes 25994, 25986 & 25921 for the recipients full-sized medals, and the full size and companion miniature medals of the recipients wife

The miniature medals mounted as worn in the swing-style, and as worn by the recipient. The reverse of the white metal mounting bar retaining its long hinged pin and clasp fittings 

Important: The item being sold is the 3 x mounted miniature medals only - the images  of the recipient & his wife's s full-size medals / ephemera are only here illustrated for reference / provenance purposes

Condition: Toning EF

Code: 25920