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Up For sale a VERY RARE! "British Physician" Sir George Pickering Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
ES-1624B
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.
