Author: ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY
Title: The Anniversary Festival Dinner [ticket] [with] Honorary Medals Will be Presented After Dinner...to...
Description: Royal Humane Society, 11th day of April, 1832. Two items, mounted, 110 x 160 mm. and 55 x 95 mm. the ticket numbered 704 in ink. Held at the City of London Tavern at a cost of 15 shilling, with the Duke of Northumberland presiding, who presented the medallions to 10 recipients, including G. Loder: "On the 24th of May 1830, three young ladies. Miss Elizabeth Crocker, and Miss Caroline and Agnes Anthony, took an evening's walk in the neighbourhood of the river Tarn, and were tempted by the fineness of the weather to venture on the sands which form the bed of that navigable river. The tide was flowing at the time, and unconscious of the danger that was surrounding them, they walked on with the buoyancy of feeling natural to their youthful ages, until they found themselves surrounded by water, occasioned by the influx of the flowing tide > their attention being attracted by the beautiful manner in which the boats were borne past them by the current, and little thinking that the waters which impelled them were rapidly collecting round the spot on which they stood. On perceiving their danger, they hastened to release themselves > but, alas ! the flowing tide had formed a deep and rapid channel between them and the mainland, and, thus insulated, they had no means of escaping the death which seemed to await them. Agnes Anthony, in the extremity of the danger, tried to regain the shore by attempting to ford the stream, but was soon borne away by the rapidity of the current, and disappeared for ever. Each succeeding moment augmented the danger of her surviving companions > their escape in that agonizing and dreadful extremity of human suffering seemed hopeless, when Providence mercifully interposed. Two young gentlemen, Mr. George Loder and Mr. Lovering, accidentally descried them, and the former, regardless of the dangers he incurred, nobly plunged into the stream, swam with an energy which could only have been strengthened by the feeling which impelled him, and rescued the two young ladies, who were unconscious of their providential escape until they found themselves restored to their parents." Acts of Gallantry by Lambton Young. 1872.

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