Founder's Medal (RGS)
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
- 1832: Richard Lander
- 1833: John Biscoe
- 1834: John Ross
- 1835: Alexander Burnes
- 1836: George Back
- 1837: Robert Fitzroy
- 1838: Francis Rawdon Chesney
- 1839: Thomas Simpson
- 1840: Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
- 1841: Henry Raper
- 1842: James Clark Ross
- 1843: Edward John Eyre
- 1844: William John Hamilton
- 1845: Charles Tilstone Beke
- 1846: Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
- 1847: Charles Sturt
- 1848: James Brooke
- 1849: Austen Henry Layard
- 1850: David Livingstone
- 1851: Georg August Wallin
- 1852: John Rae
- 1853: Francis Gallton
- 1854: William Henry Smyth
- 1855: Karl Johan Andersson
- 1856: Elislia Kent Kane
- 1857: Augustus C. Gregory
- 1858: Richard Collison
- 1859: Richard F. Burton
- 1860: Lady Franklin
- 1861: John Hanning Speke
- 1862: Robert O'Hara Burke (posthumous)
- 1863: Francis Thomas Gregory
- 1864: James Augustus Grant
- 1865: Thomas George Montgomerie
- 1866: Thomas Thomson
- 1867: Alexei Ivanovich Butakov
- 1868: August Petermann
- 1869: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
- 1870: George W. Hayward
- 1871: Roderick Murchison
- 1872: Henry Yule
- 1873: Ney Elias
- 1874: Georg Schweinfurth
- 1875: Karl Weyprecht
- 1876: Verney Lovett Cameron
- 1877: George Nares
- 1878: Ferdinand von Richthofen
- 1879: Nikolai Michailowitsch Prschewalski
- 1880: Louis Palander
- 1881: Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto
- 1882: Gustav Nachtigal
- 1883: Joseph Hooker
- 1884: Archibald Ross Colquhoun
- 1885: Joseph Thomson
- 1886: Adolphus Greely
- 1887: Thomas Hungerford Holdich
- 1888: Clements R. Markham
- 1889: Arthur Douglas Carey
- 1890: Emin Pasha
- 1891: James Hector
- 1892: Alfred Russel Wallace
- 1893: Frederick Selous
- 1894: Hamilton Bower
- 1895: John Murray
- 1896: William MacGregor
- 1897: Pyotr Semjonow
- 1898: Sven Hedin
- 1899: Louis-Gustave Binger
- 1900: Henry Hugh Peter Deasy
- 1901: Luigi Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta
- 1902: Frederick Lugard
- 1903: Douglas Freshfield
- 1904: Harry Johnston
- 1905: Martin Conway
- 1906: Alfred Grandidier
- 1907: Francisco Moreno
- 1908: Boyd Alexander
- 1909: Aurel Stein
- 1910: Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
- 1911: Pyotr Kuzmich Koslow
- 1912: Charles M. Doughty
- 1914: Albrecht Penck
- 1915: Douglas Mawson
- 1916: Percy Fawcett
- 1917: DG Howarth
- 1918: Gertrude Bell
- 1919: Ewan Maclean Jack
- 1920: Harry St John Bridger Philby
- 1921: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson
- 1922: Charles Howard-Bury
- 1923: Knud Rasmussen
- 1924: Ahmed Hassanein Bey
- 1925: Charles Granville Bruce
- 1926: Edward Felix Norton
- 1927: Kenneth Mason
- 1928: Tom Longstaff
- 1929: Francis Rennell Rodd
- 1930: Frank Kingdon-Ward
- 1931: Bertram Thomas
- 1932: Henry George Watkins
- 1933: James Wordie
- 1934: Hugh Ruttledge
- 1935: Ralph Alger Bagnold
- 1936: George William Murray
- 1937: Clinton Gresham Lewis
- 1938: John Rymill
- 1939: Arthur M. Champion
- 1940: Doreen and William Harold Ingrams
- 1941: Patrick Andrew Clayton
- 1942: Freya Stark
- 1945: Charles Camsell
- 1946: Edward A. Glennie
- 1947: Martin Hotine
- 1948: Wilfred Thesiger
- 1949: L. Dudley Stamp
- 1950: George F. Walpole
- 1951: Vivian Fuchs
- 1952: Harold William Tilman
- 1953: Patrick Douglas Baird
- 1954: John Hunt
- 1955: John Kirtland Wright
- 1956: John Giæver
- 1957: Ardito Desio
- 1958: Paul A. Siple
- 1959: William Anderson
- 1960: Phillip Law
- 1961: Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov
- 1962: Erwin McDonald
- 1963: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- 1964: Louis Leakey
- 1965: Ernest F. Rootes
- 1966: Edred John Henry Corner
- 1967: Claudio and Orlando Villas Bôas
- 1968: W. Brian Harland
- 1969: Rodolfo NM Panzarini
- 1970: Walter William Herbert
- 1971: George Deacon
- 1972: George Stephen Ritchie
- 1973: Norman L. Falcon
- 1974: Chris Bonington
- 1975: Laurence Kirwan
- 1976: Brian B. Roberts
- 1977: Michael J. Wise
- 1978: RL Brown
- 1979: David R. Stoddart
- 1980: William Richard Mead
- 1981: Keith J. Miller
- 1982: Michael Ward
- 1983: Peter Markham Scott
- 1984: Ranulph Fiennes
- 1985: David Attenborough
- 1986: Timothy Severin
- 1987: Anthony Laughton
- 1988: Peter Hall
- 1989: Monica Kristensen
- 1990: John Hemming
- 1991: Andrew Goudie
- 1992: Alan G. Wilson
- 1993: Kenneth J. Gregory
- 1994: Ronald Cooke
- 1995: Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook
- 1996: John Woods
- 1997: Tony Wrigley
- 1998: Robert J. Bennett
- 1999: Mike Kirkby
- 2000: Brian Robson
- 2001: William L. Graf
- 2002: Bruno Messerli
- 2003: Michael F. Goodchild
- 2004: Leszek Starkel
- 2005: Nicholas Shackleton
- 2006: Derek Gregory
- 2007: Roger G. Barry
- 2008: Julian Dowdeswell
- 2009: Alan RH Baker
- 2010: Diana Liverman
- 2011: David N. Livingstone
- 2012: Charles Withers
- 2013: Keith Richards
- 2014: Geoffrey Boulton
- 2015: Michael Batty
- 2016: Michael Storper
- 2017: Gordon Conway
- 2018: Paul Rose
- 2019: Trevor Barnes
- 2020: Heather Viles
(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
- ↑ Medals and awards: History and past recipients. In: rgs.org. Royal Geographical Society , accessed May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ 2020 medal and award recipients announced. In: rgs.org. Royal Geographical Society, May 18, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .
- ^ Year Book and Record. . The Royal Geographical Society, London 1914 (Retrieved July 22, 2016).
Web links
- Prize winners 1832–2016 (PDF; 219 kB) ( Memento from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- List of award winners 1970–2019 (PDF; 178 kB)