Baldwin & Sons
Auction 75 26 September 2012
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. The Teylerian Society of Haarlem, established 1778, large Silver Medal, awarded 1792, to the Rev William Laurence Brown (1755-1830), by J G Holtzhey, figures of the Republic, Learning and Religion, with distant cityscape of Haarlem, rev within scrolled border, EER PENNING VAN TEYLER'S GODGELEERD GENOOTSCHAP and stamped "W L Brown VDM Prof Philos Moralis & Ultrajecti MDCCXCII", 73mm, 192.22g.Extemely fine, toned.
This silver medal was awarded for Brown's "Essay on the Natural Equality of Men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes"; in 1786, he had received the Society's gold medal, this for "An Essay on the Folly of Scepticism the Absurdity of Dogmatizing on Religious Subjects; and the proper medium to be observed between these two extremes".Brown was born at Utrecht, educated there and at St Andrews University, entering the Scottish ministry in 1778.He had been appointed to the English church in Utrecht in 1777 and later to the professorship of Moral Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History and the Law of Nature.He came to Britain during the wars with France, was appointed to the chair of divinity at the Marischal College in Aberdeen.In 1800 he was appointed Chaplain in ordinary to the king, in 1804 Dean of the Chapel Royal and was a Knight of the Thistle.
Estimate: £350-450
This silver medal was awarded for Brown's "Essay on the Natural Equality of Men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes"; in 1786, he had received the Society's gold medal, this for "An Essay on the Folly of Scepticism the Absurdity of Dogmatizing on Religious Subjects; and the proper medium to be observed between these two extremes".Brown was born at Utrecht, educated there and at St Andrews University, entering the Scottish ministry in 1778.He had been appointed to the English church in Utrecht in 1777 and later to the professorship of Moral Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History and the Law of Nature.He came to Britain during the wars with France, was appointed to the chair of divinity at the Marischal College in Aberdeen.In 1800 he was appointed Chaplain in ordinary to the king, in 1804 Dean of the Chapel Royal and was a Knight of the Thistle.
Estimate: £350-450