Victorian Presentation 1821 Pattern Light Cavalry Officer's Sword, 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry

A beautifully etched Victorian light cavalry officer's presentation sword.

"Reeves, Greeves & Reeves - Sword Manufacturers for Her Majesty's HONble. Board of Ordnance and the HONble East India Com - 28 Bartholomew St., Chapel Birmingham".

"Presented by Lieut. Col. Viscount Milton and the officers of the 1st W.Y.Y. Cavalry to Mr Joseph Blakemore, being the best swordsman in Captn. the Honble. E. Monckton's (OR.D) Troop."

William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, KG (12 October 1815 – 20 February 1902), was a British peer, nobleman, and Liberal Party politician. He held the command of the 1st West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry for 40 years, from 1846–1886, and was a Yeomanry Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria's Viceroy in India, 1884–1894. In 1857, Lord FitzWilliam was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire and stayed as such until 1892. He was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1862, and was the senior knight at the time of his death.

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