Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, India, John Borthwick Gilchrist (1759-1841), Scottish born surgeon, linguist and Indologist, Copper Medal of the Gilchrist Educational Trust, 1841, by Carl Voigt (and Pinches), bust three-quarters right, rev seated angel instructs three young children, FIAT LVX, named on edge (Hubert H C Blake), 57mm (Pudd 841.1); Richard Temple, Chief Commissioner, Central Province, Copper Medal, 1865, for the Nagpore Exhibition, by the Calcutta mint, otherwise unsigned, bust left with pointed beard, rev hand holds wreath over eleven line legend, 51mm (Pudd. 865.1). First extremely fine, the second nearly so, first rare. (2)
first ex DNW Auction, 15 December 2005, lot 1484
Gilchrist's interest in oriental languages was to become a motivating force in his life and he compiled and authored An English-Hindustani Dictionary, A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, The Oriental Linguist and many other titles. Under the terms of his will he left the residue of his estate to the trustees "for the benefit advancement and propagation of education and learning in every part of the world as far as circumstances will permit". However the educational trust thus founded could not start its work until 1865, following years of litigation which culminated in a hearing before the House of Lords in 1858. Sir Richard Temple, Bt, GCSI, CIE, PC, FRS, was an administrator in India whose career culminated in the post of Governor of the Bombay Presidency, 1877-1880. He left India for a political career in England and, in 1885, was elected the Conservative MP for Evesham. The Nagpore Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Produce, opened in December 1865.
Estimate: £140-180
first ex DNW Auction, 15 December 2005, lot 1484
Gilchrist's interest in oriental languages was to become a motivating force in his life and he compiled and authored An English-Hindustani Dictionary, A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, The Oriental Linguist and many other titles. Under the terms of his will he left the residue of his estate to the trustees "for the benefit advancement and propagation of education and learning in every part of the world as far as circumstances will permit". However the educational trust thus founded could not start its work until 1865, following years of litigation which culminated in a hearing before the House of Lords in 1858. Sir Richard Temple, Bt, GCSI, CIE, PC, FRS, was an administrator in India whose career culminated in the post of Governor of the Bombay Presidency, 1877-1880. He left India for a political career in England and, in 1885, was elected the Conservative MP for Evesham. The Nagpore Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Produce, opened in December 1865.
Estimate: £140-180