Orders, Decorations and Medals

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY, Fothergillian Medal, W. Wyon, specimen striking in white metal of this very rare gold award, 73mm, the reverse detail a little weak, scuffed and knocked especially on the high releif otherwise very fine and rare

Instituted as the result of a bequest from Dr. Anthony Fothergill who died in 1813. A prize gold medal, to value of 50 guineas, to be awarded for the best discovery, to be approved by the Society, on the prevention of shipwreck, and the preservation of shipwrecked mariners. The Fothergillian Gold Medal was awarded only three times, the last in 1882.

For further details see article published by W.H. Fevyer in the Life Saving Awards Research Society Journal, February 1991.