Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 3rd type, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘Specimen J. T. Bedford Esq. Deputy (Member of Committee) 1851.’ edge bruising, contact mark to reverse, good very fine £100-140

J. T. Bedford was one of 28 Members of the Committee who, along with 13 Vice-Presidents of the Society, were granted Honorary bronze awards of the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire Medal in 1851 (Saved from the Flames, by Roger Willoughby and John Wilson refers).