Coins and Historical Medals

WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham, Birmingham University, Queen’s College, Warneford Medal, 1844, a silver-gilt striking of the gold award, unsigned, bust of Samuel Warneford right, rev. altar, inscribed with dedication, within wreath, un-named, 45mm, 43.77g. Minor marks, otherwise good very fine, rare £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts.

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Revd. Dr Samuel William Warneford (1763-1855), philanthropist and rector of Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire. The Birmingham Medical School of the University of Birmingham was founded by Mr Sands Cox and incorporated in 1826. In 1836 Warneford gave large sums to the building of Queen’s College and Queen’s Hospital, which he contemplated developing into a Church of England college for arts, medicine and theology. He was a governor of the Radcliffe Infirmary, which in 1812 appointed a committee to establish a lunatic asylum, opened in Headington, Oxford, in 1826. Over his lifetime Warneford donated in excess of £70,000 in money and property and a number of scholarships and awards still carry his name