Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Knight Bachelor, C.B.E. group to the distinguished Opthalmologist Sir John Parsons, D.Sc., F.R.S.

Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1955, in Royal Mint case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; with three related Medical Prize Medallions: Nettleship ‘Gold’ Medal, for Opthalmology, (John Herbert Parsons, 1907) 51mm., bronze; Doyne Memorial Medal, (J. Herbert Parsons); 63mm., bronze, and the Opthalmology Society’s Bowman Medal (Sir John Parsons, C.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., 1925) 57mm., bronze, good very fine (5) £600-800

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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C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

John Herbert Parsons was born in Bristol in 1868. He received his medical training at Bristol University, Oxford University and the B.M.A. School, gaining a B.Sc. in 1890, M.B. in 1892, B.S. in 1900, F.R.C.S. (Eng) in 1900, and D.Sc. (London) in 1904. Distinguished in the field of Opthalmology, he served as an Opthalmic Surgeon at the London General Hospital, 1916-17; a Consultant Specialist to the Home Forces, 1917-19 - he held the rank of Temporary Colonel in the R.A.M.C. Between the wars he was frequently appointed to various Advisory Medical Councils.Latterly and onetime an Honorary Fellow and President of the Royal Society of Medicine. Awarded the C.B.E. in 1919 for his wartime medical work; created a Knight Bachelor in 1922 and appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921. He was awarded the Middlemore Opthalmic Prize in 1904; Nettleship Gold Medal in 1907, for the four volume monograph ‘The Pathology of the Eye’; Doyne Memorial Medal 1919 (Oxford Opthalmic Congress) for ‘Preventative Opthalmology’; Bowman Medal in 1925 of ‘The Neurology of Vision’; and the Howe Medal (U.S.A.) in 1936. Throughout his life he was the author of many papers in the field of Opthalmology. Sir John Parsons died in October 1957. Sold with two folders containing copied research and samples of his research papers.