Lot 543 , A WW1/WW2 family medals group to Lieutenant Colonel Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St J., F.R.C.P and his son William Sydney Monckton
A WW1/WW2 family medals group to Lieutenant Colonel Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St J., F.R.C.P and his son William Sydney Monckton Copeman C.B.E., M.A., M.D., T.D., F.R.C.P (1900-1970) comprising Order of St John neck badge and star, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, badge of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, WW1 group of miniatures and CBE group of miniatures (in one frame) and C.B.E., Hunterian Society medallion, Order of St John (2), O.B.E., B.W.M (2) ., Victory. (2), Territorial Force War Medal (2), 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star W.M., and 1911 Coronation (in another frame).
Estimate £800-1,200
NB- LODGE OF ANTIQUITY MEDAL HAS BEEBN REMOVED FROM THIS LOT
NAMING- Please note that these medals have all been re-named; LT.COL.S.A.M.COPEMAN R.A.M.C
Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St.J FRS FRCP (21 February 1862 – 11 April 1947) was a British medical doctor and senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health.
He was the eldest son of Rev Arthur Charles Copeman, Vicar of St Andrew's Norwich. He was educated at Norwich School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from which he graduated in 1882. He went on to undergo medical training at St Thomas' Hospital, London, qualifying in 1886. He obtained a post-graduate MD at Cambridge University in 1890.
In 1891 he became a medical inspector with the Local Government Board. When the Ministry of Health replaced the board in 1919, Copeman became a medical officer with the ministry, retiring in 1925. He was an authority on vaccination, and is credited with the development of glycerinated lymph. In 1898 he delivered the Milroy Lecture on Vaccination – Its Natural History and Pathology, published as a book in the following year. and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1899. In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1925 was awarded the Edward Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Following his retirement from the Ministry of Health, Copeman entered local government. He was a member of Hampstead Borough Council, where he was chairman of the public health committee, and was elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Hampstead in 1934.
William Sidney Charles Copeman CBE TD FRCP (1900 – 24 November 1970) was a rheumatologist and a medical historian, best remembered for his contributions to the study of arthritic disease.
As a rheumatologist, Copeman was influential in the running of the Heberden Society, the foundation and editorship of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and the first editor of the Textbook of the Rheumatic Diseases which was first published in 1948. He worked at the Arthur Stanley Institute for Rheumatic Diseases at Middlesex Hospital, as well as being the consultant rheumatologist for the British Army and the Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond. In 1936, he set up the Empire Rheumatism Council, now known as Arthritis Research UK.
As a medical historian, Copeman gave the Fitzpatrick Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, which formed the content for his 1960 book Doctors and Diseases in Tudor Times. He also published a book on the History of Gout and Rheumatic Diseases which stemmed from lectures given at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was also elected a fellow of the International Academy of the History of Medicine. He was president of the History of Medicine Society at The Royal Society of Medicine, London between 1964 and 1966. During this time, he represented the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries when founding the British Society for the History of Medicine in 1965.
He was the son of Dr Sydney Copeman, also a well-known physician. During World War I, he served as an officer with the Coldstream Guards.
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