Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, by A. Kirkwood & Son, Edinburgh, obverse: coat-of-arms; reverse inscription in raised letters (name, college and date engraved), ‘Presented to Master Thomas Clark (Fettes College) for the Best Essay on Humanity to Animals January 1873’, 51mm., silver medallion, good very fine £80-120

Ex Spencer Collection, D.N.W., 16 December 2003.

Thomas Rutherford Clark was born in February 1857, the son of Lord Rutherford Clark. Attended Fettes College (Glencourse House), 1871-76 and then Balliol College, Oxford. Became an Advocate, and died in Torquay on 22 September 1912.