Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Sir Gilbert Blane Gold Medal (Fleet Surgeon Thomas Henry Knott, H.M.S. “Lion” 1887) 22 carat gold, 50g., in its original presentation case, extremely fine £1400-1600

In 1830 the late Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart., established a fund, vested in the Corporation of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in trust, for the purpose of conferring a gold medal once in every two years on each of the two Medical Officers (Fleet, or Staff Surgeons, or Surgeons) who shall produce the most approved journals of their practice “in the form in which they have been kept from day to day” while in Medical charge of a ship of war in the Royal Navy.

Thomas Henry Knott, M.R.C.S. Eng, L.S.A. Lond., was appointed a Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 12 November 1867 and was advanced to Staff Surgeon in December 1872, Fleet Surgeon in February 1883 and Deputy Inspector-General in May 1892. He attained the rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets on 4 April 1898.