British medals, John Freind, FRS, medical doctor, 58 mm memorial medal by St Urbain, 1728
British medals, John Freind, FRS, medical doctor, 58 mm memorial medal by St Urbain, 1728
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British medals, John Freind (1675-1728), FRS, medical doctor, 58 mm memorial medal by Ferdinand de St Urbain (1658-1738).
Freind was the personal physician of the Princess of Wales (Caroline of Ansbach, wife of the future George II) and also served as MP for Launceston in Cornwall (1725-6), although as a politician he was controversial for his Jacobite sympathies, despite his closeness to the Royal Family.
about EF, a few marks on the reverse. Scarce
MI II, 488/28
ex-Claremont collection, DNW 199, lot 838