- Email: [email protected]
Treasures of the Chartered Society
50A
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
51A
Treasures of the Chartered Society Like many longestablished organisations, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has gathered a variety of objects over the years, which are treasured more for their significance than for any monetary value. It has also presented some gifts to others as a way of marking notable occasions and achievements. A few of these revered objects are described here. One of the first recorded gifts to the Society was a set of ‘beautifully finished plaster casts of hands’ from a Miss Cannon in 1920. These appear to have crumbled into oblivion many years ago. At that time members with gardens often took flowers and foliage to decorate the Society’s premises, and books were sometimes given to the library. The donors’ views were not recorded when a few years later the Society disposed of its library, because members could obtain a greater variety of books from H K Lewis in London, or get them more easily from local branches of W H Smith and Sons Library and Boot’s Booklovers Library. The Ling Physical Education Association also allowed CSP members to use its lending library. The Society’s primary treasure must be its Register, which goes back to the date of the Charter in 1920. The first few numbers were given to surviving Founders: for example 1, 2 and 3 were Lucy Robinson, Evelyn Bliss and Hester Angove. By the end of the Centenary year we can expect Opposite: Illuminated testimonial to the Founders the 54,600th member to have registered.
Above: Katherine Kerans of the CSP Membership Department with a
Hopefully in the future, as in the past, very few volume of the Register names will have been defiled with a line scored Below left: The SRG bell. Bottom: The Society’s official seal through them, a sign that the member has been Society of Trained Masseuses by the members, in gratefuI ‘struck off. memory of the splendid services which they had rendered. Going back further is the illuminated testimonial Shown opposite, it lists the 12 Founders and hangs, presented to the Founders of the Incorporated appropriately, in the Founders’ room at Bedford Row.
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
52A
--
The Royal Charter A Royal Charter is a document emanating from the Crown .wh organisation. A Chartered Society has more rights than a lim those which are expressly forbidden by its Charter (CSPmember in the bye-laws). Only one organisation in any field may hold a George V, and the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical
The same 12 Founders are listed again in a plaque below the war memorial in the CSP headquarters. It bears the motto ‘Digna Sequi’ and a short verse: ‘No blazoned banner we unfurl, One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold The golden heresy of truth.’
The Society boasts a number of other plaques - one a t the front marking the opening of the present building by HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Mrs Angus Ogilvie GCVO in June 1969; and a companion piece at the rear marking her opening of the Jockeys Fields extension in 1989. Two others carry the names of the chairmen of Council and the Society’s presidents. As an incorporated body, the Society needs to have a seal to authenticate its official transactions. This is a metal disc which embosses an impression of the CSP badge, mounted in a lavishly decorated device like a giant letterhead embossing machine. Shown on the previous page, it was formerly used for membership certificates but these are now pre-printed with a seal. Today it is mainly employed to authenticate financial documents such as the transfer of shares. It was also embossed on the deed which established the merger of the CSP and the Society of Remedial Gymnastics and Recreational Therapy. The SRG seal was also stamped on it, the last occasion on which it was used. (The instrument of merger is preserved in the Society’s archives.) Another souvenir of the Society of Remedial Gymnastics also shown on the previous page is a silvered bell and striker. The handle bears the SRG motto ‘Spes Sibi Quisque’, which was the work of an early SRG member, Mr A Willey. It means ‘Let each person’s hope be from within; rely on your own resources’. The tenth anniversary of the founding of the Association of Superintendent Chartered physiotherapists (October
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
The Armorial Bearings The first coat of arms of the Chartered Society of Massage a for ideas in the Journal. It comprised an arm holding a gla chevron. It was not, however, an official design and when t to protect its device against unauthorised use would be to was presented in 1938, and is signed and sealed by the C The heraldic description is: ‘Or on a chevron sable between three above the elbow azure the hand grasping a glass sphere irradiat colour, eg pink for a hand). The lions stand for royalty and symb represent the craft of the physiotherapist and the glass sphere
53A
which establishes the rights, functions and constitution of an mited company; it has all the powers of a n individual except )ers are restricted by the rules of professional conduct embodied I a Royal Charter. The Society’s Charter was granted by King a1 Gymnastics came into being on June 9, 1920.
Through the initiative of two members, Miss I B French and Miss M M Barton, two windows representing physiotherapy were incorporated in a series representing the community in Guildford Cathedral. The Society’sbadge and motto were rendered in colourful stained glass, as shown top left and right of these pages - the work cost €500 and members contributed a further €100 which was used to buy chairs. Miss French also embroidered hassocks with the Society’s crest. The Queen attended the consecration service of the cathedral in 1961 and signed the consecration document. 23, 1954)was marked by the presentation to the Society
of a hammer and block made of lignum vitae, for use a t meetings - in a handsome satin-lined case. 1952 seems to have been a bumper year for presents to the members’ room in Tavistock House, with Council gratefully acknowledging a table cloth, trays, books and, from Worcester Branch, a piece of Royal Worcester china, ‘The Curtsy’.
i d Medical Gymnastics was designed in 1920 following a n appeal ss ball, with a lion, a lily and wall bars on a shield with a black he patent ran out in 1937 Council was advised that the best way icquire a proper coat of arms. The Grant of Arms, shown above, arter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms. ions rampant gules a sinister and a dexter arm embowed proper vested d also proper’ (or = gold, sable = black, gules = red, proper = natural lise the patronage of the Queen and the Royal Charter. The two hands epicts electrotherapy.
In 1959 it was the turn of the Council room to be refurnished and local Boards, Branches and Specific Interest Groups obliged with a profusion of gifts. Some African mahogany tables (now in the presidents’ room) and the chairman’s and vice-chairman’s chairs were made by a chartered physiotherapist. Donations also paid for refurbishing another 20 chairs to match, and for 50 stacking chairs and some venetian blinds. A teatrolley, silver salver, leather-bound blotting pad, inkstand and electric clock were also presented, with a contemporary style umbrella stand and coat rack (did it clash with the chairs.) An inscribed Pendulum clock was Presented to the Chartered Society by the Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice during the December 1980 Council meeting. It was suitably inscribed and commemorated the Diamond Jubilee of the Royal Charter. Today it hangs on the wall of the CSP Information Centre (see picture overleaf).
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
54A
Gifts Galore Chartered physiotherapists were also generous donors. The photograph below shows a platinum and blue enamel watch set with a diamond and pearls which members gave to their retiring Secretary, Miss Edith M Templeton, in 1933 when she left to be married. Members subscribed between 1s and 5s (5p and 25~1,and this raised enough to buy a Revelation suitcase and a nest of mahogany tea tables as well. Council and standing committees also presented Miss Templeton with a rose-pink enamel toilet set consisting of two hair brushes, a comb, a clothes brush, a hat brush, a mirror, a powder box and a scent spray, with morocco weekend case. It is to be hoped the newly-weds had a capacious car. A later Secretary, Miss E M Humble, resigned in 1944 to devote her energies full-time to organisation of the Massage Corps. She received letters and a cheque, but she promptly lent the money to the Government! Another collection was held in 1947 for a wedding present for HRH Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. The Society rashly bought the gift before the collection was made - the choice was a William and Mary long case clock with a brass dial and calendar date and arabesque spandrels. The case was walnut with seaweed marquetry. In her letter of thanks the princess said the clock was ‘as fine a one as I have ever seen’. An illuminated address was also sent but the princess’s letter does not mention that. The Society’s confidence in members’ generosity was justified; the collection for these gifts closed in January 1948 with f267 - enough for both clock and address, with a balance remaining, which was donated to a charity selected by the princess herself. A further illuminated address was sent to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the death of King George VI in 1952.
Jewels The North Eastern Local Board planned the 1954 Annual Congress at Harrogate, and to mark the occasion comissioned a n official pendant and collarette for the Society’s chairman. The diamond-shaped background is gilt, and the inscription gilt on royal blue enamel (see photograph opposite). The following year a similar badge for the vice-chairman was presented when the Congress was held in London by the South West Metropolitan Local Board. In 1956 the set was completed with a badge of office for the president of the Society, presented by all the other Boards. These are all worn at formal Society meetings.
-
Above: William and Mary long-case clock the Society’s wedding present to Princess Elizabeth
Right: Obverse and reverse of the jewelled watch for Miss Templeton
Physlotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
55A
Above: The CSP president’s and chairman’s badges of office Right: Clock presented to the Society by OCPPP Below right: The chairman‘s brooch
The Royal Brooch On many oficial occasions of the Chartered Society, attention is drawn to a brooch worn by the chairman of Council. This is made of gold and decorated with enamel and the entwined letters GRE set with diamonds. It was presented to Miss Winifred Linton FCSP by King George VI, as a token of appreciation for her treatment of him. He also presented her with a signed photograph. After Miss Linton died, her sister, Miss Violet Linton, gave the brooch and picture to the Chartered Society in 1968.It was originally planned to put them on display in the Society’s offices which were then under construction, but in 1972 the Executive Committee decided that the brooch should be worn ‘on appropriate occasions, by the chairman of Council if a lady member of the Society, or otherwise by the vice-chairman of Council, if a lady member’. Miss L E Dyer was elected chairman of Council in that year and wore the brooch on several occasions, including a meeting of the Queen’s District Nursing Service. HRH Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was present and recognised the brooch as one which she and her late husband had presented; she was delighted that it was being worn in that way, as she remembered Miss Linton well.
Acknowledgment All the treasures held by the Society have been recorded with all its official documents by archivist Anne Wheeldon. Grateful thanks are due to her and to historian Dr Jean Barclay for their help with many of the articles in this Centenary issue of Physiotherapy.
Subsequent chairman have also worn the brooch on formal occasions, including the Queen’s Silver Jubilee service in St Paul’s Cathedral and the Society’s Charter Jubilee reception in 1980 which was also attended by the Queen, the donor’s daughter. Miss A I Bromley, while chairman of Council, wore it at her investiture with the MBE in 1981 and the Queen noticed the royal cipher. A member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Department was sent to ask about its origin.
The Queen and Mrs Bobath The latest gift from the Society will also be made to the Queen, as its patron, during Centenary year. It is a bronze statue designed by the late Mrs Berta Bobath FCSP, a talented amateur sculptress. By now Her Majesty already has more presents that she can keep on show, so the Society has offered to keep the figure for her at Bedford Row, with a suitable plaque, so that it can be enjoyed by members and - whenever she cares to visit us - by its new owner.
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, noA
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
51A
Treasures of the Chartered Society Like many longestablished organisations, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has gathered a variety of objects over the years, which are treasured more for their significance than for any monetary value. It has also presented some gifts to others as a way of marking notable occasions and achievements. A few of these revered objects are described here. One of the first recorded gifts to the Society was a set of ‘beautifully finished plaster casts of hands’ from a Miss Cannon in 1920. These appear to have crumbled into oblivion many years ago. At that time members with gardens often took flowers and foliage to decorate the Society’s premises, and books were sometimes given to the library. The donors’ views were not recorded when a few years later the Society disposed of its library, because members could obtain a greater variety of books from H K Lewis in London, or get them more easily from local branches of W H Smith and Sons Library and Boot’s Booklovers Library. The Ling Physical Education Association also allowed CSP members to use its lending library. The Society’s primary treasure must be its Register, which goes back to the date of the Charter in 1920. The first few numbers were given to surviving Founders: for example 1, 2 and 3 were Lucy Robinson, Evelyn Bliss and Hester Angove. By the end of the Centenary year we can expect Opposite: Illuminated testimonial to the Founders the 54,600th member to have registered.
Above: Katherine Kerans of the CSP Membership Department with a
Hopefully in the future, as in the past, very few volume of the Register names will have been defiled with a line scored Below left: The SRG bell. Bottom: The Society’s official seal through them, a sign that the member has been Society of Trained Masseuses by the members, in gratefuI ‘struck off. memory of the splendid services which they had rendered. Going back further is the illuminated testimonial Shown opposite, it lists the 12 Founders and hangs, presented to the Founders of the Incorporated appropriately, in the Founders’ room at Bedford Row.
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
52A
--
The Royal Charter A Royal Charter is a document emanating from the Crown .wh organisation. A Chartered Society has more rights than a lim those which are expressly forbidden by its Charter (CSPmember in the bye-laws). Only one organisation in any field may hold a George V, and the Chartered Society of Massage and Medical
The same 12 Founders are listed again in a plaque below the war memorial in the CSP headquarters. It bears the motto ‘Digna Sequi’ and a short verse: ‘No blazoned banner we unfurl, One charge alone we give to youth, Against the sceptred myth to hold The golden heresy of truth.’
The Society boasts a number of other plaques - one a t the front marking the opening of the present building by HRH Princess Alexandra, the Hon Mrs Angus Ogilvie GCVO in June 1969; and a companion piece at the rear marking her opening of the Jockeys Fields extension in 1989. Two others carry the names of the chairmen of Council and the Society’s presidents. As an incorporated body, the Society needs to have a seal to authenticate its official transactions. This is a metal disc which embosses an impression of the CSP badge, mounted in a lavishly decorated device like a giant letterhead embossing machine. Shown on the previous page, it was formerly used for membership certificates but these are now pre-printed with a seal. Today it is mainly employed to authenticate financial documents such as the transfer of shares. It was also embossed on the deed which established the merger of the CSP and the Society of Remedial Gymnastics and Recreational Therapy. The SRG seal was also stamped on it, the last occasion on which it was used. (The instrument of merger is preserved in the Society’s archives.) Another souvenir of the Society of Remedial Gymnastics also shown on the previous page is a silvered bell and striker. The handle bears the SRG motto ‘Spes Sibi Quisque’, which was the work of an early SRG member, Mr A Willey. It means ‘Let each person’s hope be from within; rely on your own resources’. The tenth anniversary of the founding of the Association of Superintendent Chartered physiotherapists (October
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
The Armorial Bearings The first coat of arms of the Chartered Society of Massage a for ideas in the Journal. It comprised an arm holding a gla chevron. It was not, however, an official design and when t to protect its device against unauthorised use would be to was presented in 1938, and is signed and sealed by the C The heraldic description is: ‘Or on a chevron sable between three above the elbow azure the hand grasping a glass sphere irradiat colour, eg pink for a hand). The lions stand for royalty and symb represent the craft of the physiotherapist and the glass sphere
53A
which establishes the rights, functions and constitution of an mited company; it has all the powers of a n individual except )ers are restricted by the rules of professional conduct embodied I a Royal Charter. The Society’s Charter was granted by King a1 Gymnastics came into being on June 9, 1920.
Through the initiative of two members, Miss I B French and Miss M M Barton, two windows representing physiotherapy were incorporated in a series representing the community in Guildford Cathedral. The Society’sbadge and motto were rendered in colourful stained glass, as shown top left and right of these pages - the work cost €500 and members contributed a further €100 which was used to buy chairs. Miss French also embroidered hassocks with the Society’s crest. The Queen attended the consecration service of the cathedral in 1961 and signed the consecration document. 23, 1954)was marked by the presentation to the Society
of a hammer and block made of lignum vitae, for use a t meetings - in a handsome satin-lined case. 1952 seems to have been a bumper year for presents to the members’ room in Tavistock House, with Council gratefully acknowledging a table cloth, trays, books and, from Worcester Branch, a piece of Royal Worcester china, ‘The Curtsy’.
i d Medical Gymnastics was designed in 1920 following a n appeal ss ball, with a lion, a lily and wall bars on a shield with a black he patent ran out in 1937 Council was advised that the best way icquire a proper coat of arms. The Grant of Arms, shown above, arter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms. ions rampant gules a sinister and a dexter arm embowed proper vested d also proper’ (or = gold, sable = black, gules = red, proper = natural lise the patronage of the Queen and the Royal Charter. The two hands epicts electrotherapy.
In 1959 it was the turn of the Council room to be refurnished and local Boards, Branches and Specific Interest Groups obliged with a profusion of gifts. Some African mahogany tables (now in the presidents’ room) and the chairman’s and vice-chairman’s chairs were made by a chartered physiotherapist. Donations also paid for refurbishing another 20 chairs to match, and for 50 stacking chairs and some venetian blinds. A teatrolley, silver salver, leather-bound blotting pad, inkstand and electric clock were also presented, with a contemporary style umbrella stand and coat rack (did it clash with the chairs.) An inscribed Pendulum clock was Presented to the Chartered Society by the Organisation of Chartered Physiotherapists in Private Practice during the December 1980 Council meeting. It was suitably inscribed and commemorated the Diamond Jubilee of the Royal Charter. Today it hangs on the wall of the CSP Information Centre (see picture overleaf).
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
54A
Gifts Galore Chartered physiotherapists were also generous donors. The photograph below shows a platinum and blue enamel watch set with a diamond and pearls which members gave to their retiring Secretary, Miss Edith M Templeton, in 1933 when she left to be married. Members subscribed between 1s and 5s (5p and 25~1,and this raised enough to buy a Revelation suitcase and a nest of mahogany tea tables as well. Council and standing committees also presented Miss Templeton with a rose-pink enamel toilet set consisting of two hair brushes, a comb, a clothes brush, a hat brush, a mirror, a powder box and a scent spray, with morocco weekend case. It is to be hoped the newly-weds had a capacious car. A later Secretary, Miss E M Humble, resigned in 1944 to devote her energies full-time to organisation of the Massage Corps. She received letters and a cheque, but she promptly lent the money to the Government! Another collection was held in 1947 for a wedding present for HRH Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. The Society rashly bought the gift before the collection was made - the choice was a William and Mary long case clock with a brass dial and calendar date and arabesque spandrels. The case was walnut with seaweed marquetry. In her letter of thanks the princess said the clock was ‘as fine a one as I have ever seen’. An illuminated address was also sent but the princess’s letter does not mention that. The Society’s confidence in members’ generosity was justified; the collection for these gifts closed in January 1948 with f267 - enough for both clock and address, with a balance remaining, which was donated to a charity selected by the princess herself. A further illuminated address was sent to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the death of King George VI in 1952.
Jewels The North Eastern Local Board planned the 1954 Annual Congress at Harrogate, and to mark the occasion comissioned a n official pendant and collarette for the Society’s chairman. The diamond-shaped background is gilt, and the inscription gilt on royal blue enamel (see photograph opposite). The following year a similar badge for the vice-chairman was presented when the Congress was held in London by the South West Metropolitan Local Board. In 1956 the set was completed with a badge of office for the president of the Society, presented by all the other Boards. These are all worn at formal Society meetings.
-
Above: William and Mary long-case clock the Society’s wedding present to Princess Elizabeth
Right: Obverse and reverse of the jewelled watch for Miss Templeton
Physlotherapy, January 1994, vol80, no A
55A
Above: The CSP president’s and chairman’s badges of office Right: Clock presented to the Society by OCPPP Below right: The chairman‘s brooch
The Royal Brooch On many oficial occasions of the Chartered Society, attention is drawn to a brooch worn by the chairman of Council. This is made of gold and decorated with enamel and the entwined letters GRE set with diamonds. It was presented to Miss Winifred Linton FCSP by King George VI, as a token of appreciation for her treatment of him. He also presented her with a signed photograph. After Miss Linton died, her sister, Miss Violet Linton, gave the brooch and picture to the Chartered Society in 1968.It was originally planned to put them on display in the Society’s offices which were then under construction, but in 1972 the Executive Committee decided that the brooch should be worn ‘on appropriate occasions, by the chairman of Council if a lady member of the Society, or otherwise by the vice-chairman of Council, if a lady member’. Miss L E Dyer was elected chairman of Council in that year and wore the brooch on several occasions, including a meeting of the Queen’s District Nursing Service. HRH Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was present and recognised the brooch as one which she and her late husband had presented; she was delighted that it was being worn in that way, as she remembered Miss Linton well.
Acknowledgment All the treasures held by the Society have been recorded with all its official documents by archivist Anne Wheeldon. Grateful thanks are due to her and to historian Dr Jean Barclay for their help with many of the articles in this Centenary issue of Physiotherapy.
Subsequent chairman have also worn the brooch on formal occasions, including the Queen’s Silver Jubilee service in St Paul’s Cathedral and the Society’s Charter Jubilee reception in 1980 which was also attended by the Queen, the donor’s daughter. Miss A I Bromley, while chairman of Council, wore it at her investiture with the MBE in 1981 and the Queen noticed the royal cipher. A member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Department was sent to ask about its origin.
The Queen and Mrs Bobath The latest gift from the Society will also be made to the Queen, as its patron, during Centenary year. It is a bronze statue designed by the late Mrs Berta Bobath FCSP, a talented amateur sculptress. By now Her Majesty already has more presents that she can keep on show, so the Society has offered to keep the figure for her at Bedford Row, with a suitable plaque, so that it can be enjoyed by members and - whenever she cares to visit us - by its new owner.
Physiotherapy, January 1994, vol80, noA