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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 247

Sold by Order of the Recipient's Executors for the Benefit of St. Joseph's Hospice, Hackney

The C.B.E. and Portuguese Order of Merit awarded to C. D. Woodward, a prominent member of the Corporation of the City of London and onetime Chief Commoner

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Spink, London case of issue, with evening wear neck riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Toye, Kenning & Spencer case of issue; Portugal, Republic, Order of Merit, Grand Officer's set of insignia by Frederico Costa, Lisbon, neck Badge, 107mm including wreath and floral ring suspension x 57mm., silver and enamel, silver marks to floral ring and wreath; Star, 62 x 65mm., silver and enamel, maker's cartouche to retaining pin hinge and silver mark to retaining pin, with neck riband (4)

C.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1994:

'Chief Commoner, for services to the Corporation of London'

Cecil Douglas Woodward was born in 1924, initially seeking work as a journalist but later taking up employment in the publications department for the Fire Protection Association (F.P.A.) and for the British Standards Institution. He became Assistant Director at the F.P.A. in 1970. Woodward also became involved in the City of London, being elected to the Common Council in 1971 and founding the City Heritage Society in 1973. By 1988 he had been awarded the O.B.E. for services to the fire safety movement, acting as the inaugural Director-General of the Arson Prevention Bureau and the President of the European Arson Prevention Institute. Made Chief Commoner of the City of London in 1993, he was advanced C.B.E. He latterly wrote histories in respect of the Guildhall and the Barbican, and he died in December 2016.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including C.B.E. warrant, housed in a gilt and glazed frame; related letters from 10 Downing Street and the Corporation of London, dated in May-June 1984, and a copy of the recipient's publication Voyage Round a Barbican Garden.

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Sold for
£350