1913 King George V Signed Earl Grey Autograph Royal Document British Royalty UK for Sale

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1913 King George V Signed Earl Grey Autograph Royal Document British Royalty UK:
$874.95

LOT-G348. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1913 British royal military appointment / commission of Consul General Oscar George Potier, hand-signed by King George V and Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey. Royal British presentation document commission appointment is original. Condition is original. Royal autographs are manuscript hand-signed in black ink. Scarce document. Royal watermark. Museum quality. One of a kind. Guaranteed authentic.

Oscar George Potier. Born 27 Sep 1871 Santa Catarina, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal.

DEATH 20 Dec 1931 (aged 60) Portugal, Cemitério dos Prazeres Lisbon, Lisboa Municipality, Lisboa, Portugal.

Consul-General of Portugal in various countries: China, Morocco, United Kingdom, etc. Married Eugenia Waddington de Brito on 23 July 1902. They had 4 children, all born in Shanghai, China:

Augusto Rato Potier (1903-1964).

António Rato Potier (1904-1990)

Maria-Eugénia Rato Potier (1905-2007)

Oscar Norberto Rato Potier (1908-2002)

Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (28 November 1851 – 29 August 1917) was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada 1904–1911, the ninth since Canadian Confederation. He was a radical Liberal aristocrat and a member of a string of liberal high society clubs in London. An active and articulate campaigner in late Victorian England he was associated with many of the leading imperialists seeking change.