The Order of St. John group of three to Colonel A. Clark, Honorary Surgeon to the King

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge and breast star, silver and enamel, slight enamel damage, and with one ‘lion’ emblem missing from angle of Star; Coronation 1911 (Col. Andrew Clark, V.D., K.H.S.); Volunteer Decoration, V.R., silver and silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1892), the reverse inscribed ‘Brigade Surgeon Lt. Col. Andrew Clark, 4th Middx. Rifles, Presented by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, Decr. 19th 1892’, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (4) £300-400

Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

Andrew Clark was born in London and was educated privately and at the University of London. He was at times Honorary Surgeon to the King; Colonel in the Army Medical Service; Assistant Director of Medical Services, 2nd London Division, Territorial Force; Consulting Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Marylebone General Dispensary; and Vice-President and Gold Medallist of the British Medical Association. He died on 29 August 1913.