Founder's Medal (RGS)

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Founder's Medal, awarded to Kenneth Mason in 1927

The Founder's Medal is an award given by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). It was donated by King Wilhelm IV in 1832 as a cash prize of 50 guineas . A medal was awarded from 1836 to 1838, and in 1839 the foundation's assets were divided into two medals of equal rank: the Founder's Medal , on which the portrait of Wilhelm IV is still embossed, and the Patron's Medal .

Award winners

(Notes: Instead of a medal, David Livingstone received a chronometer in 1850 and Karl Johan Andersson received surveying instruments in 1855. In 1851, as from 1832 to 1835, a cash prize was awarded. In 1913, instead of the Founder's Medal, a Special Antarctic Medal and the Patron's Medal, awarded in 1904, was handed over to the widow of Robert Falcon Scott . No prizes were awarded in 1943 or 1944.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medals and awards: History and past recipients. In: rgs.org. Royal Geographical Society , accessed May 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 2020 medal and award recipients announced. In: rgs.org. Royal Geographical Society, May 18, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Year Book and Record. . The Royal Geographical Society, London 1914 (Retrieved July 22, 2016).

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