"British Physician" Sir George Pickering Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

Up For sale a VERY RARE! "British Physician" Sir George Pickering Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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Sir George White Pickering, FRS (26 June 1904

– 3 September 1980) was a British medical doctor and academic.

Pickering was Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of

Oxford from 1956 to 1968, and Master of Pembroke College,

Oxford from 1968 to 1975. He was a Governor

of Abingdon School from 1969 until 1974. Pickering

was the author of the book Creative Malady (1974). The

book explores creativity and mental illness in the lives

of Charles Darwin, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Proust and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  In the 1957

Birthday Honours, it was announced that Pickering was to be made a Knight

Bachelor in recognition of his role as Regius Professor of Medicine at the

University of Oxford. On 16 July 1957, he was knighted by Queen

Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.