Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Doctor Grace Winifred Pailthorpe, French Red Cross

British War and Victory Medals (G. W. Pailthorpe) extremely fine (2) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Grace Winifred Pailthorpe was born c.1884 and trained for medicine, graduating as a M.B., B.S. 1914 and M.D., University of Durham, 1925. During the Great war she served as Doctor with the French Red Cross and Scottish Women’s Hospitals, entering France in February 1915. In later life she became a Psychiatrist and Psychologist and in the early 1930’s gained an international reputation with her pioneering work on the psychology of criminals. Her H.M.S.O. report Studies in the Psychology of Delinquency and her book, What we Put in Prison, 1932, brought her world wide aclaim. She initiated the establishment of the worlds’s first clinic for the psychological treatment of prison inmates. Soon after the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency was formed - now known as the Portman Clinic. In private life she was an accomplished artist. Dr Pailthorpe died in July 1971, aged 87 years.

With copied research including m.i.c. and obituary from The Times.