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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 129

Prize Medals awarded to M. L. Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim of Camden K.B.E., F.R.S.,

West London Medico-Chirurgical Society Triennial Medal, silver-gilt, engraved (Professor Max Leonard Rosenheim C.B.E.., M.D., P.R.C.P.); University College Prize Medal, silver, engraved (M. L. Rosenheim, Summer Session, 1929-1930.); University College Prize Medal, silver for Pathological Anatomy, engraved (M. L. Rosenheim Summer Session 1930-31.), all in their fitted cases of issue, extremely fine (3)

[K.B.E.] London Gazette 1 January 1967.

Max Leonard Rosenheim was born on 15 March 1908, he was educated at The Hall preparatory school in Hampstead, followed by Shrewsbury School and in 1926 he entered St.John's College Cambridge, as a Scholar. He was awarded first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos, Part I, in 1929, and entered University College Hospital Medical School with the Goldsmith Exhibition. He gained the Junior Clinical Medal and Samuel Tuke Medal and qualified in 1932.

With the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1941 and served in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, ending his army service as consulting physician to the Allied Land Forces, S.E. Asia with the rank of local Brigadier.

On his return to the U.K. he returned to University College Hospital where he became Deputy Director of the Medical Unit and Honorary Consultant Physician. He was largely responsible for persuading the three bodies concerned with the certification of physicians in the United Kingdom to merge their examinations. Thus the M.R.C.P. London, the M.R.C.P. Edinburgh and F.R.F.P.S. Glasgow ceased to offer separate examinations and combined to offer one M.R.C.P. United Kingdom.

He wrote 83 papers dealing mostly with renal disease and hypertension, but in his later years they became broader in scope and revealed his wide experience and interest in the problems of medical care, medical organisation, medical research, and the need for continuing education and training of the qualified doctor.

Elected President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1966 a position he held until 1972. He was created a Life Peer in 1970 and was given the title Baron Rosenheim of Camden. Rosenheim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1972 and died on 2 December 1972.

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