Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry x105


A Second War C.I.E. group of four awarded to Captain G. L. Vivian, C.S.I., Indian Army Reserve of Officers and Indian Civil Service


The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband, minor red enamel damage to extremity of one petal, otherwise nearly extremely fine; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. G. L. Vivian, I.A.R.O. Attd. 12 Cav.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, very fine and better unless otherwise stated (4)


£800-£1,000


C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944: ‘Graham Linsell Vivian, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces, and lately Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces.’


C.S.I. London Gazette 13 June 1946: ‘Graham Linsel Vivian Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Advisor to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces.’


Graham Linsell Vivian was born on 1 August 1887, the son of Richard Thomas Vivian of Roseville, Winchmore Hill North. He was educated at Epsom College, from where he won a open classical scholarship to Selwyn College Cambridge. Appointed after examination to the Indian Civil Service in 1910, he arrived in India, 25 November 1911, and served in the United Provinces as Assistant Magistrate and Collector and Assistant Settlement Officer in October 1916 and Joint Magistrate in June 1917. He then took leave from the civil service while serving as a Captain in the Cavalry Branch of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers from 13 September 1917 (London Gazette 25 January 1918).


Vivian returned to the Indian Civil Service in the United Provinces in 1919 following military service and was assigned special duties at Lucknow from October 1922 to February 1923. Appointed Settlement Officer in October 1923, he served for one year until appointed Officiating Magistrate and Collector in October 1924. Confirmed in July 1928.


Vivian was briefly appointed Officiating President, Court of Wards, from February to November 1935, and was appointed Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces from 1941 to 1943. He was Officiating Chief Secretary to the Governor of the United Provinces, 1943-44, receiving recognition in 1944 when he was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. He served as Advisor to the Governor of the United Provinces until retirement in 1946 for which services he was further rewarded, this time as a Companion of the Star of India. He died at Hastings on 18 February 1978 at the age of 91.


Sold together with an Epsom College Propert Prize Medal, 1867, a bronze award medal by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, bust of John Propert left, rev. legend in and around wreath, 57mm, edge impressed (G. L. Vivian, 1906.)


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