British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer

Medical: England and Wales, London: Röntgen Society, Mackenzie Davidson Medal, a light bronze award by Vaughton, bust of Mackenzie Davidson left, rev. in memoriam, etc, edge named (Sir Thomas Horder, Bt, M.D., 1924), 57mm. Obverse very fine but rather spotted, reverse better, very rare and a noted recipient (£90-120)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Obverse only illustrated. Sir James Mackenzie Davidson (1856-1919), president of the Röntgen Society 1912-13. Sir Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, GCVO (1871-1955), born Shaftesbury, lived at Ashford Chace, Petersfield; educated at the University of London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital; captain in RAMC in World War I; Physician in Ordinary to Edward, Prince of Wales, subsequently Edward VIII, and to George VI; Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Hampshire. As the then physician to the Prime Minister, Ramsay Macdonald, Horder famously denied Macdonald’s increasingly precarious health on at least two occasions in 1932, in the second of which his statement to the press, read from the steps of his practice at 141 Harley street in November, was widely quoted internationally. The rumours that Macdonald was suffering from cerebral anaemia refused to go away, however, and throughout 1933 and 1934 he became an increasingly ineffective leader as the international situation grew more threatening; Macdonald resigned as premier in May 1935. Sold with much further biographical detail