Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Barbados, Emancipation of Slavery, 1834, a silver medal by B.T. Young, compensation voted by parliament, etc, rev. emancipation act clause xxxvii abridged, etc, 41mm (BHM 1671, not listed in silver). About extremely fine and toned, rare £400-600

Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction 78 (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 63; bt K.V. Eckardt March 1997.

General Sir Lionel Smith, Bt, GCB, GCH (1778–1842), diplomat, colonial administrator, and soldier. He was Governor of Tobago (1833), Governor of Barbados, Viceroy of the Windward Islands and Grenada (1833-6), and Jamaica (1836-9). Smith read the Proclamation of Freedom to a crowd estimated to be 8,000 which had gathered in the main square of Spanish Town, Jamaica. He was later (1840-2), Governor of Mauritius