Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Medical, Obstetrics, E.J. Hopkins Medal, by Lumley, nurse kneels at the bed of a woman lying-in, holding the baby, above Juno in clouds with two peacocks, rev. Latin legend in 8 lines, edge named (Emanuel Cooper, 1829), 51mm (Storer 1598). Good very fine, toned, very rare £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Emanuel Cooper (1802-78), surgeon and obstetrician. His adopted daughter Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper (1864-1956) was married to a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy, with whom she had an affair and finally married in 1905. Ada was to influence Irene in the Forsyte Saga, and the Cooper family can be found throughout the book. In later life Cooper built a large mausoleum in the Rosary Cemetery, Norwich, in which he would sit on a Sunday afternoon, smoking his pipe