Orders, Decorations and Medals

Lancashire Humane Society, rev. inscribed, ‘Presented to Mr Benjamin Witham Booth for his zealous exertions on behalf of the Humane Society, 1838’, 52mm., silver medallion, unmounted, minor edge bruising, good very fine, very rare
£200-250

The Lancashire Humane Society was instituted in 1789 and revived in 1824. Little is known of this Society, one of many local Humane Societies prevalent in England at this time. An example of this medal is recorded in the British Museum Collection. The recipient may well be the Surgeon of the same name, from Swinton, Manchester, who made a gift of stained glass windows to the new St. John’s Chapel in the Parish of German, Isle of Man, completed in 1849.