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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 151

A Fine K.C.H., Sultan's Gold Medal for Egypt Group of Four to Director-General Sir John Webb, Ordnance Medical Department, One of the Original Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
a) The Royal Guelphic Order, Civil Division, Knight Commander's (K.C.H.) Star, 77mm, silver, gold and enamel, with gold retaining pin, one arm of cross slightly bent, green enamel damage
b) The Royal Guelphic Order, A Fine Quality Early 19th Century Bullion Star, silver bullion thread with green fabric wreath, green enamel lacking from central medallion, and slightly damage to one tip
c) Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Egypt (Sir J. Webb, M.D. K.C.H., Field Inspr. Army Medical Dept.), remnants of lacquer
d) Sultan's Gold Medal for Egypt 1801, 3rd Class, 43mm, with original integral suspension loop, gold chain suspension and additional contemporary gold riband bar, generally very fine unless otherwise stated (4)

Knighthood, London Gazette 23.2.1821 John Webb, Esq. Director-General of the Ordnance Medical Department at Woolwich.

C.B. London Gazette 16.8.1850 Sir John Webb, Knight, Director General of the Medical Department of the Ordnance

Director-General Sir John Webb, Kt., C.B., K.C.H., (1772-1852), JP and DL for Kent; fourth son of John Webb of Woodland Hill, Staffordshire, and later of Dublin; appointed Hospital Mate, June 1794, and attached for service with the 53rd Foot the following year; advanced Inspector of Field Hospitals, April 1801; advanced Inspector General, Ordnance Medical Department, November 1809; Director-General, August 1813; The Medical Times and Gazette gives the following:

'Memoir of Sir John Webb. Director-General of the Ordnance Medical Department. - In our last Number we announced the death of this distinguished member of our Profession. Sir John Webb's services are comprehended in the following summary:- On the Continent under the Duke of York in 1794; present at the action of Lannoi; at the siege of Morne Fortuné; capture of St. Lucia; the expulsion of the Caribs from St. Vincent; capture of Trinidad; the descent of the Puerto Rico in 1797; the reduction of the Helder; capture of the Texel fleet in 1799; on the coast of Spain in 1800; the Egyptian Campaign in 1801, including the action of the Landing, and those of March; taking of Grand Cairo; the siege of Copenhagen; capture of the Danish fleet in 1807, and, finally, the expedition to the Scheldt in 1809. In all, Sir John was on full pay for fifty-four years. On the occasion of the creation of Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir John was placed in that rank. He also possessed the degree of M.D. [and F.R.C.S. in 1843] The honour of knighthood was conferred for general services [1821 and K.C.H. in 1832], but more especially in consideration of his bravery as a volunteer in charge of the British troops off Alexandria, who were suffering from the plague, the troops being re-landed. This occurrence gave Sir John the opportunity of collecting A Narrative of Facts, &c., on the Plague among the British Troops employed in the Conquest of Egypt, which he published, and which, it is believed, is the only work that issued from his pen. Sir John married late in life, but has left a widow and children. All who knew the late Director-General could not fail to remark the simple dignity of his character, his unflinching integrity in all the duties of life, and above all, his lover of good works.'

Sir John Webb retired on Full Pay in April 1850 (C.B.); two years later he died at Chatham Lodge, Woolwich.

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