Up For Auction a VERY RARE! "British Physician" Sir George Pickering Hand Signed TLS Dated 1970. 

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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 Freud, Florence Nightingale, Marcel 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.