1897 QUEEN VICTORIA & LORD LANSDOWNE signed Commission to Alexander Warrand

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1897 QUEEN VICTORIA & LORD LANSDOWNE signed Commission to Alexander Warrand
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1897 QUEEN VICTORIA & LORD LANSDOWNE, Fine original signed Commission to Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand, appointed to Lieutenant Colonel, Volunteer Forces, boldly signed by Queen Victoria to top left and countersigned by Lord Lansdowne, 5th Marquess, in his capacity at the time as Secretary of State for War.
The Outer side of the commission indicates the position held for 1st (Ross Highland) Volunteer Battalion-Seaforth Highlanders(Ross-shire Buffs- The Duke of Albany).- Dingwall. and also a note "Late Captain in the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders- in his hand with his signature below.
Col Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand of the Seaforth Highlanders, whose main residence was Ryefield House near Conon Bridge, in Ross-shire.
From a family with a long military tradition, Col Warrand graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1881.
Within a year he was in action in Egypt, leading soldiers at Tel el-Kebir, a battle commemorated by the monument at Station Square in Inverness.
He retired from the Army in 1911 but at the outbreak of World War I he become the lead recruitment officer for northern Scotland.
According to a report in the Inverness Courier, a letter was read out from the colonel at a council meeting that said he would prefer it if the estate was bought for Inverness.
The idea was that much of the area would be laid out as recreational park land and perhaps Col Warrand considered that after all the suffering during the war he was doing his bit to create a land fit for heroes.
When he died a few years later his obituary in the Inverness Courier described him as a man with "a keen interest in local affairs and everything pertaining to the welfare of the Highlands".
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901
. Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. Victoria, a constitutional monarch, attempted privately to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality.
Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, British republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond jubilees were times of public celebration. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (14 January 1845 – 3 June 1927), was a British statesman who served successively as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Secretary of State for War,
1895–1900 Upon his return, as a Liberal Unionist, he aligned with the Conservative Party. Prime Minister Lord Salisbury appointed Lansdowne to the post of Secretary of State for War in June 1895. The unpreparedness of the British Army during the Second Boer War brought calls for Lansdowne's impeachment in 1899. His biographer, P. B. Waite, considers that he was unjustly criticised for British military failures, but ever the good minister, he took full responsibility and said nothing
In 1917, during the First World War, he wrote the "Lansdowne Letter", advocating in vain a compromise peace. A millionaire, he had the distinction of having held senior positions in Liberal and Conservative Party governments.
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1897 QUEEN VICTORIA & LORD LANSDOWNE, Fine original signed Commission to Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand, appointed to Lieutenant Colonel, Volunteer Forces, boldly signed by Queen Victoria to top left and countersigned by Lord Lansdowne, 5th Marquess, in his capacity at the time as Secretary of State for War.The Outer side of the commission indicates the position held for 1st (Ross Highland) Volunteer Battalion-Seaforth Highlanders(Ross-shire Buffs- The Duke of Albany).- Dingwall. and also a note "Late Captain in the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders- in his hand with his signature below. Col Alexander Redmond Bewley Warrand of the Seaforth Highlanders, whose main residence was Ryefield House near Conon Bridge, in Ross-shire. From a family with a long military tradition, Col Warrand graduated f
Scotland Counties
Ross-shire
City/Town/Village
Conon Bridge
Genealogy
Warrand family
Service
Army
In the Reign of
Queen Victoria 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901
Document type
Military Commissions
Family Surname of
Warrand
Subject type
Seaforth Highlanders
Theme
Militaria
Famous Persons in History
Queen Victoria & Lord Lansdowne
Era
1850 - 1900
EAN
Does Not apply
Country
Scotland
Issued/ Not-Issued
Issued
Type
Document
Time Period
19th Century (1800-1899)
Year of Issue
1897