Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Edinburgh University, copper award medals (3), unsigned, named (Practice of Physic, 1896-97, A. Dingwall Fordyce; Mental Diseases, 1897, A. Dingwall Fordyce; Medicine, 1897-98, A. Dingwall Fordyce), all 52mm; Edinburgh University, Mouat Medal, a light bronze award, unsigned, named (A. Dingwall Fordyce, 1898), 58mm (cf. DNW 66, 1106); together with an iron nameplate (Captn. D. Fordyce of Brucklay, No. 4), 240 x 116mm [Lot]. Very fine
£120-£150

Major Alexander Dingwall-Fordyce, MD, FRCP (1875-1940), pioneer pædiatric physician; b. Edinburgh; qualified in medicine from Edinburgh Academy, 1898; studied in Vienna, Berlin and Paris; elected to the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1903, and secretary 1914-18; assistant physician to the Children’s Hospital, Edinburgh, 1906, and full physician, 1917-20; served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I, particularly at Salonika, October 1915 (awarded 1914-15 Star, BWM and Victory); honorary physician to the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, 1920-35.

The Dingwall-Fordyce family, whose seat was Brucklay Castle, Aberdeenshire, is descended from Margaret, daughter of Robert the Bruce. The Castle and two neighbouring fields were requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence in 1941 as a prisoner-of-war camp and to house displaced Polish soldiers, which was decommissioned in 1947. Sold with further background information