Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Guild of St. George (?) Medal (From T. E. Harvey, Esq. M.P. to H. Alexander for Saving Life, 27.4.1912) 33mm., silver, nearly extremely fine £70-90

Thomas Edmund Harvey was born in Leeds on 4 January 1875 and educated at Bootham School, York; Yorkshire College, Leeds; Christ Church, Oxford and the Universities of Berlin and Paris. He was employed firstly as an Assistant in the British Museum, 1900-04 and then as a member of London County Council, 1904-07. He was the Member of Parliament for West Leeds, 1910-18 and later for Dewsbury, 1923-24. During the Great War he was heavily engaged in relief work in France on behalf of the War Victims Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, 1914-20. A noted author of a number of religious works, he was at times Warden of Toynbee Hall, 1906-11 and Master of the Guild of St. George, 1934-51. Harvey died on 3 May 1955.