British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer

Medical: England and Wales, Oxford, Oxford Eye Hospital and the First Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, 1909, a bronze award medal by Spink, bust of Robert Doyne facing, rev. oak branches threaded through two banners, named (Robert Platt, MD, 1956), 64mm; University of Oxford, the Weldon Medal, 1911, a bronze medal by A.G. Wyon, bust of Walter Weldon half-right, rev. legend, wreath below, edge named (Awarded to Charles Goring, B Sc, MD Lond., 1914), 64mm (Storer –; MJP p.220); Department of Physiology, University of Oxford, Francis Gotch Prize, 1913, a bronze award plaque by A. Drury, bust of Francis Gotch left, rev. arms above oak branch, named (1936, Awarded to John Norton Mills, New College), 80 x 57mm [3]. First good very fine, others extremely fine, all rare (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Obverse of last only illustrated, reduced. Robert Walter Doyne (1857-1916), ophthalmologist, established the Oxford Eye Hospital in 1886 and founded the Oxford Congress of Ophthalmology in 1909. Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860-1906), from Highgate, London, studied at University College and then King’s College in London, matriculating from St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 1878. He worked as a zoologist while continuing to lecture at Cambridge and in 1899 was appointed Linacre professor of comparative anatomy at Oxford, but died from a bout of pneumonia at Easter 1906. The medal in his name was awarded triennially for the most noteworthy contribution to the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in biology. Francis Gotch (1853-1913), professor of physiology, 1895 to 1913