A Jubilee (Police) Medal 1887 to the famous Detective Chief Inspector George Hepburn Greenham,

A Jubilee (Police) Medal 1887 to the famous Detective Chief Inspector George Hepburn Greenham, Metropolitan Police, no clasp (CHF INSPR G. GREENHAM. A. DIVN), very fine; offered with a copy of 'Scotland Yard Experiences, From the Diary of G.H. Greenham', Routledge (pub.), 2018. and three copy photographs of the recipient.

George Greenham was born in Trieste in 1835. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1869 and almost immediately joined the Criminal Investigation Department. He worked on numerous cases involving fraud and murder and, due to his ability to speak several languages, was often involved in cases involving foreign nationals, frequently travelling abroad. He acted as bodyguard to Queen Victoria for 17 years on her trips abroad and also as bodyguard to Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial during their exile in England. On one notable occasion he saved the Prince Imperial’s life by apprehending a French assassin who was on the point of shooting the Prince with a revolver. In 1883 he, along with other officers, foiled a plot to blow up the German Embassy in London. Awarded the Knight of the Order of St Phillip by the Grand Duke of Hesse and another award by Alexander II of Russia. Full details of his career in the police are recorded in “Scotland Yard Experiences from the Diary of G. H. Greenham” originally published in 1904 and re-printed in 2018.