1754 Richard Mead Memorial Historical Medallion by L PingoInternational orders: All duties, taxes and import charges are calculated and collected at checkout. There will be nothing further to pay upon delivery. Story Sir Richard Mead died at his home in Bloomsbury, aged 80. He is best know for his work on transmissible diseases, but also for setting up The Foundling hospital on Brunswick Square gardens for abandoned children. He was the royal physician to George II and his London home where he died, is now