Ulster Medical Society, Campbell Memorial Trust, a bronze award medal by Rosamond Praeger for Sir Thomas Houston on behalf of Pinches, bust of Robert Campbell left, rev. Campbell examining the leg of an infant being held on his mother’s lap, named (Thomas Houston, BA, MD, 1924), 76mm (Storer –; MJP p.19). Tiny spot of verdigris in centre of reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare; a poignant award to an original trustee and close friend of Robert Campbell £150-£200

Provenance: DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1154; A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the property of a Gentleman, DNW Auction 172, 11 March 2020, lot 489; W.J. McKivor Collection.

Robert Campbell (1866-1920), b Carnanee, Templepatrick, co Antrim; studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Queen’s College, Belfast; graduated from the Royal University of Ireland, 1892; house surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, then resident physician at Chester Infirmary; appointed honorary surgeon at the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, 1898, then in positions at the Belfast Royal Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital; surgeon to the Ulster Volunteer Force in World War I. Following his death over 100 of his friends and colleagues subscribed £874 to what became the Robert Campbell Memorial Fund, administered by Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Houston (†June 1949), then president of the Ulster Medical Society and the recipient of this medal, who became chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. The medal, designed by the Ulster sculptress Rosamond Praeger (1867-1954), was awarded periodically for distinguished work in any branch of medical science in Ulster