Lot 3043

Description

The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, Prudential Building Sydney Opened, 1939, in silver (64mm) (C.1939/4, this medal), by Amor, edge impressed, 'Sir George Barstow, K.C.B., LL.D., Deputy Chairman of Directors'. In Amor Ltd case of issue, toned uncirculated and scarce.

Sir George Lewis Barstow KCB, was born in India in 1874 and was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. In 1898 he started work as a civil servant in HM Treasury and in 1909 was appointed principal clerk and then Assistant Secretary. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1914 and in 1919 was appointed Controller of Supply Services at the Treasury. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1920. In 1927 he was on the management body of Anglo-Persian Oil Company as government director, holding this position until 1946. He was a director of Midland Bank and was also on the board of the Prudential Assurance Company, becoming deputy chairman and then elected chairman in 1941 retaining this position until 1953. Barstow also took a special interest in the church and higher education. He was a governor of Christ College, Brecon, Wales and President of University College Swansea, also in Wales, from 1929-1955, the university awarding him an honorary LL.D (Doctor of Laws) in 1937. He died at his beautiful and historic home, Chapel House, in Builth Wells, Wales on 29 January 1966.