Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

A St John Ambulance Brigade group of three awarded to Doctor M. K. Hargreaves, Hon. Divisional Surgeon of the Brigade

Order of St John, Officer’s (Honorary Associate) breast badge, frosted silver; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Hony. Surg. M. K. Hargreaves, M.D.); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade (M. K. Hargreaves, Hon. Sur.) very fine and better (3) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Mark Kippax Hargreaves came from Lancashire and was born in about 1852. He received his medical training at Glasgow Universty, and became an M.B. (Glasgow), and a C.M. in 1879. He became an M.D. (Glasgow) in 1884. He was Resident Assistant Medical Officer in London, at Shoreditch Infirmary, before moving to Leeds in the early 1880’s. He later moved back to London, where he had consulting rooms in Cavendish Square, and a residence at Merton Park, Surrey. He became Assistant Physician, later Physician, at the St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. A member of the General Council of the University of Glasgow, and of the B.M.A., Hargreaves was also a keen supporter of the St John Ambulance Association. He was a Lecturer and Examiner of the Association, and also an Honorary Divisional Surgeon of the Ambulance Brigade. On 25 May 1909, he was elected an Honorary Associate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

Doctor Hargreaves was well-known and popular in Wimbledon as well as in Merton, where he was a Governor of the Rutlish Charity. He was a recognised authority on skin diseases and author of A Practical Manual of Venereal and Generative Diseases, and in 1888 contributed two articles to the British Medical Journal on chilblains and alopecia. He died of influenza on 27 October 1918, aged 66. Sold with full research.