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I need one of these for my Rigg group but, at that price, it can stay put for the moment..

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Below is the list of recipients of the Incorporated Law Society medal, taken from the official report of the banquet held on 18 December 1902.
106 of the 176 officers and men listed attended the function, during which the medals were distributed. I have added given names and service numbers where these were missing.

SEE: Incorporated Law Society Tribute Medal






ADAMS, Appelbe Chisholm, Lieutenant, 3rd Bn. West Riding Regiment (Militia).
ANDERSON, Henry Stewart, Lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) (Militia).
ANSTEY, Henry Charles, Lieutenant, 5th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Militia).
ARGENT, Herbert Thompson, 820, Lance-Corporal, City Imperial Volunteers.
ATTERBURY, John Lucas [Lucan], 4819, Trooper, 37th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 10th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BACON, Charles Darnell, 12198, Corporal, 66th (Yorkshire) Company, 16th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BAILEY, Harold George Charles, 170, Corporal, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Gordon Highlanders.
BAKER, Frank Robert, 6567, Lance-Corporal, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Suffolk Regiment.
BATES, John, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Cheshire Regiment.
BARRON, Walter Edwin, 22973, Quartermaster-Sergeant, 25th (West Somerset) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BARTON, Walter John, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Norfolk Regiment.
BENNETT, William, 7690, Trooper, 25th (West Somerset) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BERKELEY, Charles Walter, Captain, City Imperial Volunteers.
BLAGG, Walter Edward, Captain, 4th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment (Militia). Commandant, Prince Albert Road.
BLAIR, Harrison Macdonald, Lieutenant, 2nd (Wiltshire) Company, 1st Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BLAKE, John Bale, 27605, Corporal, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BOUSFIELD, Hugh Delabere, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, West Yorkshire Regiment. Also, commanded No. 4 Armoured Train.
BOWEN, Hugh Storer, 33647, Trooper, 63rd (Wiltshire) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BOWMAN, John Broughton, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Durham Light Infantry.
BRETTELL, Norman Scott, Lieutenant, 58th (Berkshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BRIGHOUSE, Samuel, 21844, Quartermaster-Sergeant, 32nd (Lancashire Hussars) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, Lieutenant, 27th (Devonshire) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BRIGHTEN, Edgar William, Captain, 3rd Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Bedford Regiment.
BROOME, Geoffrey, 99, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
BRYAN, John Hinton, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment.
BUCKWELL, Charles William, Lieutenant, 36th (West Kent) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BUDDEN, Herbert Augustus, 13141, Corporal, 52nd (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, Captain, 87th (2nd Rough Riders) Company, 22nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
BYFIELD, Bertram Dickinson, Captain, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Royal Fusiliers.
CAMPBELL, Frederick Henry, saw service during the Siege of Kimberley [possibly 545 Pte. F.H. Campbell, Kimberley Volunteer Regiment]
CARMICHAEL, James Fell Scott, 12572, Trooper, 70th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
CARR, George Arthur Buxton, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
CARR-ELLISON, Herbert George Carr, Lieutenant, 14th (Northumberland) Company, 5th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
CASTLE, Stanley Mason, Lieutenant, 1st Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment.
CHANNER, Osborn [Osborne] Robert Moseley, 7694, Sergeant, 25th (West Somerset) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
CHARLES, Frank Pendrill, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Welsh Regiment. Died of wounds, 04/07/1902, Netley Hospital.
CLARKE, Harry Colin, 1265, Trooper, 13th (Shropshire) Company, 5th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
CLARKSON, Herbert Green, Lieutenant, 3rd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment (Militia); Railway Staff Officer.
CLEGG, John, 7309, Private, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
COCKBURN, John Geddes Hunter, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Royal Sussex Regiment.
COLVILLE, Augustus Gilbert, D82, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
COOKE, John Kemp., 1706, Trooper, 22nd (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
COOPER, E., Lieutenant, Army Service Corps.
COOTE, Arthur Bernard, 14116, Trooper, 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
COWLARD [Cowland], Edward George, Lieutenant, Volunteer Active Service Company, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Died, 05/03/1901, Springfontein.
CROFTON, John Ffolliott, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Cheshire Regiment.
DARLINGTON, Henry Clayton, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment.
DAVEY, Walter How, 20351, Quartermaster-Sergeant, 28th (Bedfordshire) Company, 4th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
DIVER, Charles Barwick, 5476, Corporal, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Norfolk Regiment (recipient of the Great Yarmouth Tribute Medal)
DIVER, Harry, Lieutenant, 3rd Volunteer Active Service Company, Norfolk Regiment (recipient of the Great Yarmouth Tribute Medal) .
DONISTHORPE, Anderson de Aula, Captain, 66th (Yorkshire) Company, 3rd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
DOYLE, Arthur John, 7471, Lance-Corporal, 36th (West Kent) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
DUNCAN, James Fergus, Lieutenant, City Imperial Volunteers (Battery).
DURRANT, Arthur Ernest, 7473, Trooper, 36th (West Kent) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
DYER, Edward Arnold, 556, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.). Also, Lieutenant, 4th (Glamorganshire) Company, 1st Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
ELAM, Horace Shrofield, 20848, Trooper, 27th (Devonshire) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Wounded at Vlakfontein, 29/05/1901.
ELWELL, Harold, 23, Private, City Imperial Volunteers.
EVANS, Richard William Picton, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Welsh Regiment.
FOLEY, Frank Wilson, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. North Lancashire Regiment.
FURNEAUX, Claude, Lieutenant, Army Service Corps.
GASKELL, Frank Hill, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Welsh Regiment.
GOODMAN, Godfrey Davenport, Captain, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment).
GORDON-ROBERTS, Richard, 4191, Trooper, 30th (Pembrokeshire) Company, 9th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry (recipient of the Carnarvon Tribute Medal) .
GUNNELL, Gerard, 28703, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
GURNEY, Clement Henderson, Lieutenant, 4th Bn. (The King’s) Liverpool Regiment (Militia).
GUSH, Frank, Corporal, Border Horse.
GUTRIDGE, George William, 1312, Bombardier, City Imperial Volunteers (Battery).
GWATKIN, Frederick Ambrose Stapleton, 21725, Trooper, 81st (2nd Sharpshooters) Company, 21st Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HALL, Montagu Heath, Major, 3rd Bn. South Lancashire Regiment (Militia). Also, Assistant Press Censor and Commandant at Springfontein.
HARRIS, Harold Henry, Lieutenant, 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards.
HARRISON, Charles Newton Moberly, 28704, Sergeant, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HARTLAND, Joseph Bullen, 298, Corporal, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. Severely wounded, near Pienaar's River, 02/06/1901.
HAWTHORNE, Cyril, 15456, Trooper, 75th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HENRIQUES, Ralph Quixano, Lieutenant, Service Section, 1st Middlesex Royal Engineers (Volunteers).
HEXT, John Edward, Lieutenant, 59th (Oxfordshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HILL-MALE, Richard, Captain, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Welsh Regiment.
HORWOOD, Percival Edward, 3507, Private, Cape Mounted Rifles. Killed in the Defence of Wepner, 10/04/1901.
HOTSON, John Herbert, Lieutenant and Captain, 2nd and 3rd Volunteer Active Service Companies, Norfolk Regiment.
HULBERT, Charles Kenelm, 4271, Corporal, 62nd (Middlesex) Company, 14th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HUNTER, Robert Cecil, 8153, Trooper, 59th (Oxfordshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
HUTCHINSON, Elliot St Maurice [Elliot H.M.], Lieutenant, South Rhodesia Frontier Force. Also, Captain, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and on the Staff of the Director of Military Intelligence.
INCLEDON-WEBBER, Adrian, Lieutenant, Royal Irish Fusiliers.
INGRAM, Melville Herbert, Captain, 6th (Staffordshire) Company, 4th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
JACKSON, Douglas William, 13040, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, Lieutenant, 4th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Militia).
JACKSON, Hugh Willan, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment.
JACKSON [Payne], Robert Harry, Quartermaster-Sergeant [Trooper], 24th (Westmorland & Cumberland) Company, 3rd [sic] Bn. Imperial Yeomanry [believed to be 30168 Trooper Robert Harry PAYNE, 24th (Westmorland & Cumberland) Company, 9th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. SEE NOTE BELOW].
JONES, Edmund Stanley, 1981, Trooper, 11th (Yorkshire Dragoons) Company, 3rd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
JONES, William Hatherley, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
JOSEPH, Arthur Samuel, 1065, Driver, City Imperial Volunteers (Battery).
KEENE, Thomas Mann, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
KENNAWAY, Leonard Mark, 7800, Trooper, 25th (West Somerset) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
KIMBER, Charles Dixon, Lieutenant, 36th (West Kent) Company, 13th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Killed in Action, 17/07/1901, Wildfontein near Ventersdorp.
KINGSWELL, Frank Alford [Alfred Frank], 1982, Corporal, 11th (Yorkshire Dragoons) Company, 3rd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Wounded, 09/08/1900, Reitfontein.
KITSON, Henry Lane, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Dorset Regiment.
LAMB, John Elliot, Captain, 6th Bn. Manchester Regiment (Militia).
LAMB, Robert, Lieutenant, 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
LANGLEY, Francis Edmund, Captain, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry.
LEE, Arthur, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Border Regiment.
LEE, Turner, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment).
LEIGH, Robert, 5381, Trooper, 26th (Dorset) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
LISTER, Henry Reid, Private, 76, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
LONGSTAFF, Cedric Llewellyn, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, East Surrey Regiment.
LUCAS, Percy Francis [Frank P.], 1308, Driver, City Imperial Volunteers (Battery).
MAGER, George Edmund, 1052, Trumpeter, City Imperial Volunteers (Battery).
MANISTY, Edward Ashburner, Lieutenant, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
MAPLES, Kenneth James, Lieutenant, 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment (Militia).
MARRIOTT, Richard John, 303, Trooper, 5th (Warwickshire) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
MARSHALL, Charles Bennett, 81, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
MEYLER, Hugh Mowbray, 12485, Lance-Corporal, 67th (Sharpshooters) Company, 17th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
MONCKTON, Hubert [Herbert] John, 1139, Johannesburg Mounted Rifles and National Scouts. Died, Standerton, 04/02/1902.
MOSSOP, Clyde Swinson, 10253, Trooper, 56th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
MOTUM, Hill, Lieutenant, Donegal Artillery (Militia). Died, 14/01/1901.
NEWINGTON, Herbert Archer Hayes, Lieutenant, 3rd Volunteer Active Service Company, Gordon Highlanders.
OAKLEY, John Gretton, 14128, Trooper, 47th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Company, 13th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
OSBORNE, Henry Mackreth, E490, Trooper [Cornet], “C” Division, South African Constabulary.
OUVRY, Ernest Carrington, 6319, Corporal, 34th (Middlesex) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
PAGE, John Edward, Lieutenant, 4th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment (Militia).
PAWLE, Alfred George, Major, City Imperial Volunteers.
PAYNTER, Edwin Coleman, 27182, Trooper, 42nd (Hertfordshire) Company, 12th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
PEARSON, William Alfred, Captain, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, West Yorkshire Regiment.
PHILLIPS, George Ingleton, Captain, 6th Bn. Warwickshire Regiment (Militia).
PHILLIPS, Llewellyn James, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, South Wales Borderers. Also, Resident Magistrate, Krugersdorp.
PICKFORD, Frank Samuel, 4762, Sergeant, 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
POYSER, Charles Langford, 8190, 31st (Montgomeryshire) Company, 9th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Severely wounded, 13/11/1900.
PREECE, Percy John, Captain, Army Post Office Corps.
PRIOR, Bernard Henry Leathes, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Norfolk Regiment.
REYNER, Basil St. John Bishop, 22280, Trooper, 81st (2nd Sharpshooters) Company, 21st Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
RIDGWAY, Thomas, Lieutenant, 3rd Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Cheshire Regiment.
RIDLEY, Gerald Arthur, 16410, Corporal, 69th (Sussex) Company, 14th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
RIGBY, Herbert Perrott, 1771, Trooper, 22nd (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
RIGG, Reginald Shaw, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).
ROOS, Gustaf Oscar, Lieutenant, Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry. Severely wounded, 24/01/1900.
RUSSELL, Edgar Campbell, 6569, Lance-Sergeant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company (Cambridge University Section), Suffolk Regiment.
SALMON, Claud Garrett, Lieutenant, 67th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SALMOND, Albert Louis, Lieutenant-Colonel, 3rd Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Died of wounds, 04/08/1902.
SANDERSON, Stephen Goodman, 3298, Sergeant, 15th (Northumberland) Company, 5th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, 116th (Sharpshooters) Company, 25th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SCHNADHORST, Frank Gladstone, 13510, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, Lieutenant, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts. Wounded near Heilbron, 04/10/1901.
SCHWABE, Horace Foster, 1779, Trooper, 22nd (Cheshire) Company, 2nd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, Lieutenant, 104th (Derbyshire) Company, 4th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Died in South Africa.
SEATON, George Stuart, 1273, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
SHIELD, Arthur Robert [A.P.], 20854, Trooper, Machine Gun Section, 34th (Middlesex) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SITWELL, William Sacheverell, 1276, Private, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
SKINNER, Charles Blackett, Captain, 4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment (Militia). Attached to Army Service Corps.
SMITH, Martin Irwin Cecil, 8312, Lance-Corporal, Volunteer Active Service Company, Gordon Highlanders.
SNAGG, Bertram Cecil Keith, 16493, Trooper, 69th (Sussex) Company, 7th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SOMERS, John Percy, 83, Cyclist, City Imperial Volunteers.
STANILAND, Meaburn, 6623, Private, Volunteer Active Service Company, Lincolnshire Regiment.
STEAD, Redmond Morres Vere [Verr], Captain, 3rd Bn. Royal Scots (Militia) and Army Service Corps.
STEELE, Henry Squire, Captain, 7th Bn. and Base Depôt, Imperial Yeomanry.
STEWART, Bertrand, 7542, Lance-Corporal, 36th (West Kent) Company, 11th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
STRAKER, Ernest Joseph, Lieutenant, Machine Gun Section, 71st (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. Also, 5610, Private, 3rd (Gloucestershire) Company, 1st Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SWORD, Horatio Broadhurst Dennistoun, 27247, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SWORD, Henry Cambronne, 27246, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
SYMONDS, William Frederick John, Captain, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment.
TAYLOR, Charles Hillsborough Rimington, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. Essex Regiment.
THOMPSON, Cecil Boyd, 6627, Private, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Lincolnshire Regiment.
TOPPING, Thomas Edward, Captain, 57th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 15th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
TOWNSHEND, Brian Chambré, Lieutenant, City Imperial Volunteers (M.I.)
TRAVERS, Harold Paget, Captain, Imperial Yeomanry (unattached).
TRAVIS-COOK [Travers-Cook], John Douglas Earle, Lieutenant, 1st Bn. South Lancashire Regiment.
TROW, William Henry, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Died, 25/05/1900.
TURNBULL, John, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Durham Light Infantry.
VAUDREY, Claude Henry Slade, Lieutenant, 6th Bn. Manchester Regiment (Militia).
VEASEY, Arthur Charles Thomas, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Bedfordshire Regiment.
VINCENT, Herbert James, 13081, Trooper, 51st (Paget’s Horse) Company, 19th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
WADMORE, Alban Henry Thomas, Lieutenant, 63rd (Wiltshire) Company and 74th (Dublin) Companies, 16th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
WALKER, Thomas Henry, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment.
WARWICK, Frank Stanley, Lieutenant, 2nd Volunteer Active Service Company, Durham Light Infantry.
WATSON, Douglas Statham, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Somerset Light Infantry.
WEBB-BOWEN, Hugh Ince, Lieutenant, 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (recipient of the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal) .
WHITCOMBE, Robert Henry, Captain, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment.
WILLCOCKS, Edward Francis, Lieutenant, Volunteer Active Service Company, 1st Bn. South Lancashire Regiment.
WILLIAMS, Edward Percy, 37, Corporal, City Imperial Volunteers.
WILLSON, Christopher, Lieutenant, 3rd Bn. Durham Light Infantry (Militia).
WILSON, Matthew Richard, Lieutenant, 109th (Yorkshire Hussars) Company, 3rd Bn. Imperial Yeomanry.
WINDEATT, Francis Knowle, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Devonshire Regiment.
WOODCOCK, Frederic Arthur, Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, 2nd Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
WYLLYS, Gerard Hugh de Burgh, 46, Private, City Imperial Volunteers.


QMS Robert Harry JACKSON appears to be 30168 Trooper Robert Harry PAYNE, 24th (Westmorland & Cumberland) Company, 9th Bn. Imperial Yeomanry. He sat his law examinations under the name of Jackson, but later practised as a solicitor under his birth name, Payne. The Incorporated Law Society Report states that Jackson served for only 9 months and the dates (March to November 1901) tally with those given in Payne's service papers. Various records show that both "Jackson" and "Payne" were born in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1859/60. However there is only one actual birth registration, and that is under the name of Payne. His mother died in childbirth or shortly thereafter, and at the age of one Robert is living as a Jackson with his "widower" father, Henry Jackson. However, I can find no record of a marriage between his mother and father, and I suspect he was born out of wedlock, being given his mother's name at birth. He reclaimed this name sometime after 1889, having taken his law exams and married under the name of Jackson.
His father, also a solicitor, was, on 25 April 1885, imprisoned for 5 years for the theft of £1,000, with which he had been entrusted by a client. It appears that by reverting to the name of Payne, Robert hoped to distance himself and the business from his disgraced father. Law examination records show that Robert was working for his father’s firm when he gained his degree in 1889. His father had been released from Chatham Prison four months earlier, but presumably was no longer allowed to practise as a solicitor.

It seems likely that the Incorporated Law Society continued to use the name Jackson because this is the name that appears on his law degree.


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I still have the medals to R.S. Rigg and ought really to set about getting one of these. I was in contact with his great granddaughter who might well have it in her possession but, as is the way of all things, I have misplaced her contact details.

List of recipients updated with given names and service numbers. Just three proving difficult to find:


CAMPBELL, Frederick Henry, “saw service during the Siege of Kimberley” [possibly 545 Pte. F.H. Campbell, Kimberley Regiment of Volunteers]

COOPER, E., Lieutenant, Army Service Corps.

JACKSON, R.H. [probably Robert Harry], Quartermaster-Sergeant, 24th [sic?] (Westmorland & Cumberland) Company, 3rd [sic?] Bn. Imperial Yeomanry [no record found].
Note: clearly an error here, as the 24th Company was not part of the 3rd Bn. I.Y.
No I.Y. service papers for a man with this name extant.



Any help filling the gaps would be greatly appreciated.

Neville

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