Description
Indian Mutiny, bar Lucknow, Assistant Surgeon William Haughton, Royal Artillery, recipient of the Turkish Order of the Medjidie 5th Class, for services in the Crimean War.
Officially impressed: “Asst Surgn Wm Haughton, 14th By R. Arty.”
Additionally entitled to the Crimean War Medal, 2 bars, Inkermann and Sebastopol, a Turkish Crimea Medal and the Turkish Order of Medjidie, however there is no indication on the medal roll that it was issued officially named suggesting that this is his only officially named medal.
An obituary in the Law Times:
“W. Haughton, The late Mr William Haughton, Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln’s Inn, and 81 Holland Road, Kensington, who died at Kilmancurrag, Rathdrum, Ireland, on the 6th December, in his 65th year of his age.
He was the eldest son of the late Mr William Haughton, of Moorfield, Roebuck, in the County of Dublin.
He was born in September 1830, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts and also of Medicine.
He was for some years a Surgeon in the Army, and saw active service abroad from 184-61, for which he obtained the Order of the Medjidieh and also the Turkish War Medal; But, changing his views, he was entered as a student of the Middle Temple in 1864, and called to the bar by that society in Hilary Term 1867.
he practised as an Equity Draughtsman and Conveyancer; and had been Treasurer of the Royal Horticultural Society since 1880.”
William Haughton, B.A., M.B., had an unusual and varied career, As a young doctor he graduated from Trinity College in Dublin during 1851 and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
He joined the Army as a Surgeon, and first served as an Assistant Surgeon with the Ordinance Medical Department being posted for service in the Crimean War.
During the war he earned the Crimean War Medal, with 2 bars for Inkermann and Sebastopol, alongside a Turkish Crimea Medal.
He then went on to the Indian Mutiny, with the 14th Battery of the Royal Artillery.
During the war he took part in the actions of Kalee Nuddee, Affair of Ramgunga and the Siege of Capture of Lucknow. Followed by Bareilly, Shahjehanpore and Mohumdee, to earn this medal and bar for Lucknow.
As the war was ongoing at home it was announced on 2nd March 1858 that he was to be decorated with the Turkish Order of Medjidie, 5th Class, by the Sultan of Turkey for distinguished services in the war again Russia.
On 3rd December 1861 he was reduced to Half Pay, the vacancy being filled by another Assistant Surgeon.
His interest now lay elsewhere, on 22nd April 1864 he became a student of the Middle Temple, being called to the Bar on 26th January 1867.
He would become a Barrister at Law, Equity Draughtsman and Conveyancer, also the Treasurer of the Royal Horticultural Society from February 1880. (J7281) N.E.F. £895
