Medal Collection (page 27)

Louis XVIII, King of France. Louis (1755-1824) became king in 1814 when the monarchy was restored after the defeat of Napoleon

Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1814. Francis I of Austria (1768-1835) became the last Holy Roman Emperor in 1792. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved following Austrias disastrous defeat by Napoleon

Napoleon presenting female officer Marie Schellinck with the Legion d Honneur, 1808 (1894). Artist: Lionel Noel Royer
Napoleon presenting female officer Marie Schellinck with the Legion d Honneur, 1808 (1894). Schellinck was the first woman to be awarded the Legion d Honneur

Russian Admiral Avellan on board the cruiser Emperor Nicholas I, 1893. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 7th October 1893

Return of the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the New Khedive of Egypt, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Return of the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the New Khedive of Egypt, 1892. Abbas II (1874-1944) succeeded his father Tewfik Pasha. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 27th February 1892

Letter from Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard, 21st November 1730. Artist: Jonathan Swift
Letter from Jonathan Swift to Henrietta Howard, 21st November 1730. Letter written from Dublin by Swift, Dean of St Patrick s, to Henrietta

King George V and Queen Mary on their way to St Pauls Cathedral, Silver Jubilee, 1935. Illustration from George V and Edward VIII, A Royal Souvenir, by FGH Salusbury

Prince George, Duke of Kent, c1936. The Duke of Kent (1902-1942) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of King George V

The Prince of Wales with the Empress and Crown Prince of Japan, Tokyo, 1922. The future King Edward VIII on a royal visit

King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, 1936. Edward (1894-1972) succeeded his father George V to the throne as King Edward VIII in 1936

Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero, general and leader, (1833). Artist: W Holl
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero, soldier and leader, (1833). Kosciuszko (1746-1817) was the leader of the Polish uprising (which bears his name)

Queen Elizabeth I in old age, 16th century, (1896). Illustration after a picture in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court, from a work published by Boussod, Valadon & Co, (1896)

Queen Elizabeth I medal, 16th century, (1896). Illustration after the original in the British Museum, London, from a work published by Boussod, Valadon & Co, (1896)

George III of the United Kingdom, late 18th-early 19th century (1913). Artist: Richard Cosway
George III of the United Kingdom, late 18th-early 19th century (1913). A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1913)

General Sir Frederick Roberts, 1893. Artist: W Roffe
General Sir Frederick Roberts, 1893. Sir Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) was one of the foremost British military figures of Victorian times

Sir Gerald Graham, British Lieutenant-General, 1893. Artist: E Stodart
Sir Gerald Graham, British Lieutenant-General, 1893. Graham (1831-1899) received the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Crimea in 1855 when a 23 year-old Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers

Sir Herbert Stewart, British soldier, (1893). Artist: W Roffe
Sir Herbert Stewart, British soldier, (1893). Stewart (1843-1885) died after being wounded on the expedition to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum

Two French Foreign Legionnaires, 20th century

Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, (1907). Henry Frederick (1594-1612), who died of typhoid fever at the age of 18, was the eldest son of King James I

King George III of Great Britain, c1850. Portrait of George William Frederick (1738-1820), King of Great Britain, and below, a vignette of an attempt to shoot the king in Hyde Park

George IV, King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, 19th century. George Augustus Frederick (1762-1830) ruled as Prince Regent until his fathers death in 1820

William IV, King of the United Kingdom, 19th century. Artist: J Cochran
William IV, King of the United Kingdom, 19th century. Portrait of William Henry (1765-1837), the third son of King George III and younger brother of George IV

Napoleon III, President of the French Republic and Emperor of France, 1860s. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808- 1873) assumed the title Emperor of France in 1852

Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, 19th century. Portrait of Frederick William Nicholas Charles (1831-1888) who later became Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia

Louis XVI, King of France, (1814). Artist: Edward Topham
Louis XVI, King of France, (1814). Portrait of Louis XVI (1754-1793) who was executed during the French Revolution

Decoration of a French soldier with the Legion d Honneur, c1910. Decoration of Private Haberthur with the Legion d Honneur, after he distinguished himself in combat at Moul el Bacha, Morocco

The mayor of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire in the ruins of the commune, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 5th August 1915

Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, cover of Liberation, 1982. Brezhnev (1907-1982) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Karl Friederich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Born in Brunswick, Gauss (1777-1855) founded the modern form of complex analysis

The Emperor Napoleon I, 1815. Artist: Horace Vernet
The Emperor Napoleon I, 1815. The emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is depicted wearing the cross and plaque of the Legion d Honneur and the cross of the Order of the Iron Crown

Meeting the German Emperor, 25th August, 1791, 19th century

National Glory, 19th century

Legion des Amis de la France, Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Print from a series titled Souvenirs du Siege de Paris. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III

Portrait of the Marquis of Marigny, 1755. Artist: Louis Tocque
Portrait of the Marquis of Marigny, 1755. The Marquis of Marigny was an architect and the brother of Madame de Pompadour. From Madame de Pompadours upper apartments, the Palace of Versailles

John Russell Hind, Hermann Goldschmidt and Robert Luther, astronomers, c1900. Medal commemorating the work of these three men on the discovery of planetoids (asteroids or minor planets)

Medal commemorating Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868
Medal commemorating Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868. In 1868, working independently of each other on spectroscopic studies of solar prominences

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868. Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen (1824-1907), left, and Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)

Julius Ferdinand Hann, Austrian meteorologist, c1921
Julius Ferdinand Hann, c1921. Portrait of Hann (1839-1921) from a commemorative medal issued by the Austrian Meteorological Society

Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 1862. Founded in 1772, the observatory is named after the physician John Radcliffe (1652-1714)

Manuel John Johnson, English astronomer, 1862. Johnson (1805-1859) observed the total solar eclipse of 27 July 1832 while in charge of the St Helena observatory

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, 1907. The inventor of the opthalmoscope (1850)

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, German motor industry pioneers, 1961. Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834-1900), left, German engineer and inventor and Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929)

Incandescent light bulb, 1929. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Thomas Alva Edison, American physicist and inventor, 1929. Obverse of a medal celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edisons (1847-1931) invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879

Medal commemorating Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, French biologist, 20th century. Lamarcks (1744-1829) theory of evolution by inheritance of acquired characteristics was known as

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas, French organic chemist, 1873. Dumas (1800-1884) did important work on organic analysis and synthesis, and the determination of atomic weights

Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955). In 1854 Deville (1818-1881) discovered the process for obtaining pure aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium

Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century. Lalande (1732-1807) was professor of astronomy at the College de France for 46 years from 1760

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