Patron's Medal
The Patron's Medal is an award given by the Royal Geographical Society . It has been awarded since 1839, when a cash prize donated by King William IV was split into two medals: the Patron's Medal , which originally featured the likeness of the incumbent British head of state, and the Founder's Medal . The Patron's Medal now bears the image of the young Queen Victoria again . However, this medal should not be confused with the Victoria Medal, which is also awarded by the Royal Geographical Society . In the last few years the award has been made mainly to people who have made a name for themselves in communicating geographic topics to the public.
Award winners
In 1851 there was no medal, but a cash prize. In 1943 and 1944 no prizes were awarded.
- 1839: Eduard Rüppell
- 1840: Robert H. Schomburgk
- 1841: John Wood
- 1842: Edward Robinson
- 1843: John Frederick Anthony Symonds
- 1844: Georg Adolf Erman
- 1845: Carl Ritter
- 1846: Alexander Theodor von Middendorff
- 1847: Ludwig Leichhardt
- 1848: Charles Wilkes
- 1849: Carl von Hügel
- 1850: John Charles Frémont
- 1851: Thomas Brunner
- 1852: Henry Strachey
- 1853: Edward Inglefield
- 1854: Robert John Le Mesurier McClure
- 1855: David Livingstone
- 1856: Heinrich Barth
- 1857: Andrew Scott Waugh
- 1858: Alexander Dallas Bache
- 1859: John Palliser
- 1860: Francis Leopold McClintock
- 1861: John McDouall Stuart
- 1862: Thomas Blakiston
- 1863: John Arrowsmith
- 1864: Karl Klaus from the ceiling
- 1865: Samuel Baker
- 1866: William Chandless
- 1867: Isaac Hayes
- 1868: Gerhard Rohlfs
- 1869: Mary Somerville
- 1870: Francis Garnier
- 1871: Alexander Keith Johnston
- 1872: Robert Barkley Shaw
- 1873: Henry Morton Stanley
- 1874: Peter Egerton Warburton
- 1875: Julius Payer
- 1876: John Forrest
- 1877: Nain Singh
- 1878: Henry Trotter
- 1879: William John Gill
- 1880: Ernest Giles
- 1881: Benjamin Leigh Smith
- 1882: John Kirk
- 1883: Colborne Baber
- 1884: Julius von Haast
- 1885: Henry E. O'Neill
- 1886: Guido Cora
- 1887: George Grenfell
- 1888: Hermann von Wissmann
- 1889: Gustav Radde
- 1890: Francis Younghusband
- 1891: Fridtjof Nansen
- 1892: Edward Whymper
- 1893: William Woodville Rockhill
- 1894: Elisée Reclus
- 1895: George Curzon
- 1896: St. George Littledale
- 1897: George Mercer Dawson
- 1898: Robert Edwin Peary
- 1899: Fernand Foureau
- 1900: James McCarthy
- 1901: Donaldson Smith
- 1902: Percy Molesworth Sykes
- 1903: Otto Sverdrup
- 1904: Robert Falcon Scott
- 1905: Charles Henry Dudley Ryder
- 1906: Robert Bell
- 1907: Roald Amundsen
- 1908: Albert I of Monaco
- 1909: Milo George Talbot
- 1910: William Speirs Bruce
- 1911: Jean-Baptiste Charcot
- 1912: Douglas Carruthers
- 1913: Edward Adrian Wilson (posthumous)
- 1914: Alexander H. Rice
- 1915: Filippo De Filippi
- 1916: Frederick Marshman Bailey
- 1917: Cecil Rawling
- 1918: Jean Tilho
- 1919: William Morris Davis
- 1920: Jovan Cvijić
- 1921: Robert Bourgeois
- 1922: Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
- 1923: Miles Cater Smith
- 1924: Frank Wild
- 1925: Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston
- 1926: Edgeworth David
- 1927: Lauge Koch
- 1928: George Hubert Wilkins
- 1929: Charles Henry Karius
- 1930: Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink
- 1931: Richard E. Byrd
- 1932: Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta and Duke of Spoleto
- 1933: Erich von Drygalski
- 1934: Ejnar Mikkelsen
- 1935: Willi Rickmer Rickmers
- 1936: Robert Ernest Cheesman
- 1937: Lincoln Ellsworth
- 1938: Eric Shipton
- 1939: Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann
- 1940: Alexander Glen
- 1941: Isaiah Bowman
- 1942: Owen Lattimore
- 1945: Halford Mackinder
- 1946: Henry Larsen
- 1947: Daniel van der Meulen
- 1948: Thomas Henry Manning
- 1949: Hans Pettersson
- 1950: Harald Sverdrup
- 1951: Donald Thomson
- 1952: Paul-Émile Victor
- 1953: Eigil Knuth
- 1954: Neil A. Mackintosh
- 1955: James Woore Simpson
- 1956: Charles Evans
- 1957: George Binney
- 1958: Edmund Hillary
- 1959: Raymond Priestly
- 1960: Théodore Monod
- 1961: John Bartholomew
- 1962: Tom Harrison
- 1963: Albert P. Crary
- 1964: Thor Heyerdahl
- 1965: Lester C. King
- 1966: Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
- 1967: Eduard Imhof
- 1968: Augusto Gansser
- 1969: Raymond Thorsteinsson and Edward Timothy Tozer
- 1970: Haroun Tazieff
- 1971: Charles Swithinbank
- 1972: Michael D. Gwynne
- 1973: Edgar H. Thompson
- 1974: Gordon de Quetteville Robin
- 1975: Joachim P. Kuettner
- 1976: Edmund Irving
- 1977: F. Kenneth Hare
- 1978: Mieczysław Klimaszewski
- 1979: Robin Hanbury-Tenison
- 1980: Preston Everett James
- 1981: Valter Schytt
- 1982: Douglas Ernest Warren
- 1983: John Watts Young
- 1984: Pierre Gourou
- 1985: Walter Purvis Smith
- 1986: Peter Haggett
- 1987: Richard J. Chorley
- 1988: Nigel de N. Winser
- 1989: Keith Clayton
- 1990: Richard Leakey
- 1991: Helge and Anne-Stine Ingstad
- 1992: Martin Holdgate
- 1993: John Blashford-Snell
- 1994: Ghillean Prance
- 1995: David Harvey
- 1996: John B. Thornes
- 1997: David William Rhind
- 1998: David Drewry
- 1999: Doug Scott
- 2000: Crispin Tickell
- 2001: Reinhold Messner
- 2002: David Keeble
- 2003: Harish Kapadia
- 2004: Sydney Possuelo
- 2005: Jean Malaurie
- 2006: Jack D. Ives
- 2007: Paul J. Curran
- 2008: H. Jesse Walker
- 2009: Nicholas Stern
- 2010: Jack Dangermond
- 2011: Sylvia Earle
- 2012: Alastair Fothergill
- 2013: Michael Palin
- 2014: Hans Rosling
- 2015: Paul Theroux
- 2016: Bob Geldof
- 2017: Lindsey Hilsum
- 2018: Yadvinder Malhi
- 2019: Fiona Reynolds
- 2020: Michael T. Jones
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Medals and Awards. Gold medal recipients ( en ) The Royal Geographical Society . Retrieved February 5, 2019.
- ^ Year Book and Record. 1914 . The Royal Geographical Society, London 1914 (Retrieved July 22, 2016).
- ↑ 2020 medal and award recipients announced. In: rgs.org. Royal Geographical Society, May 18, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 .
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)