Orders, Awards, Certificates, Appointments, (c.1883)-1920

Date:
1885-c.1919
Reference:
MS.7935
Part of:
Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)
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Orders, Awards, Certificates, Appointments, (c.1883)-1920. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Comprises of the following awards and certificates (awarded to Cantlie unless otherwise stated):

  • MS.7935/1: certificate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt, in honour of Cantlie's services during the cholera epidemic, dated March 1885.
  • MS.7935/2: certificate of appointment as Surgeon-Commandant, Volunteer Forces, Medical Staff Corps, from 1 April 1885, dated March 1885.
  • MS.7935/3: certificate of Commission as Surgeon of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, conferred by the Governor of Hong Kong, with MS. covering letter from the Colonial Secretary, dated March 1888.
  • MS.7935/4: certificate of Commission as Surgeon-Captain of the Field Battery in the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, conferred by the Governor of Hong Kong, with ts. covering letter signed by the Colonial Secretary, dated May- July 1893.
  • MS.7935/5: certificate of appointment as Honorary Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, conferred by the St John Ambulance Association and Ambulance Brigade, dated July 1896.
  • MS.7935/6: certificate of appointment as Surgeon-Lieutenant of the Volunteer Forces, (7th Middlesex (London Scottish) Volunteer Rifle Corps), from 2 December 1896 (after Cantlie's return from Hong Kong), dated December 1896.
  • MS.7935/7: certificate of appointment as District Chief Surgeon, St John Ambulance Brigade, dated 3 November.
  • MS.7935/8: Imperial Ottoman Order of Osmanieh (4th class), conferred on Cantlie by the Khedive of Egypt. Original award, in Turkish, dated 21 Nov 1908, with envelope; certificates of private permission from the King listing the occasions Cantlie can wear the Insignia of the Order, dated December 1908-November 1910 (reduced to occasions of the conferring country only in 1910).
  • MS.7935/9: certificate of appointment as Colonel in the Territorial Force, from 1 April 1908 (1st London Territorial Division, Royal Army Medical Corps), signed August 1910, dated January 1909 on the front.
  • MS.7935/10: certificate of admission as Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, by The Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, dated March 1903.
  • MS.7935/11: certificate of membership of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, dated November 1911.
  • MS.7935/12: Grant of K.B.E., dated January 1908.
  • MS.7935/13: Grant of O.B.E. to Mabel Barclay, Lady Cantlie, dated January 1919.
  • MS.7935/14: award to [Mabel?] Cantlie of the Belgian 'Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth avec croix rouge' for services during the War, dated July 1919.
  • MS.7935/15: certificate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem to Lady Cantlie, O.B.E., in recognition of services during the War, dated c.1919.
  • MS.7935/16: letter of notification from the Italian Red Cross Delegation in London of award of the Bronze Medal of Merit of the Italian Red Cross, for services rendered to the General Delegation in providing premises for their office (56 Queen Anne St, London, W1) on generous terms, dated May 1903.

    • Publication/Creation

    1885-c.1919

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    21 items

    Finding aids

    Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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