Watch List notes:

Medals, The Lakes Collection, Henry Brougham (1778-1868), Repeal of the Orders in Council of 1807 Advocated, silver medal, 1812, by Thomas Halliday, bare head r., rev. legend in 6 lines, OF COMMERCE, THE ENLIGHTENED FRIEND, OF NATIONAL INTEGRITY, THE VIRTUOUS, ELEQUENT, AND UNDAUNTED, SUPPORTER., 48mm. (BHM.747, R2), a few light scuff-marks, nearly extremely fine, toned and very rare; Candidature in the Westmoreland Elections, copper medal, 1818, by G. Mills, bare head r., rev. legend in 5 lines in wreath, THE TORCH OF THE MIND IS THE FLAME OF GLORY, 35.5mm. (BHM.971, R3), extremely fine and extremely rare (2)
Henry Peter Brougham, later to be Lord Chancellor and Baron Brougham and Vaux, was first elected to Parliament as the Whig MP for Camelford, though in 1812 he was defeated when standing for a seat in Liverpool. Brougham was a close supporter of the anti-slavery movement throughout his life. The contentious 1807 Order of Council prohibited trade with France and her allies and any of their ships trading with the United States were obliged to come to a British port and pay tax. Again, the same year, 1812, saw his appointment as advisor to Princess Caroline of Brunswick, becoming her Attorney-General on the accession of George IV. The trial firmly established his reputation.
The latter medal is only recorded in copper. Brougham may well have known its reverse legend as a Latin motto, 'Fax mentis incendium gloriae'.
(180-220 GBP)