medal
- Museum number
- M.5586
- Description
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Bronze medal. (whole)
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Bare head of Admiral Duckworth, left. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 45.000 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
Sir John Thomas Duckworth, first baronet (1748-1817). Born at Leatherhead 28th February, 1748, a distinguished naval officer, who, as captain of the 'Orion', shared in the victory of the 1st June, 1794. When he was a Vice-Admiral, he defeated a French fleet, near Ocoa Bay in 1806; created a Baronet in 1813 and appointed Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth in 1815.
Bibliography: Grueber, H. A., English Personal Medals for 1760, 'Numismatic Chronicle', third series vol. X, 1890/96; Milford Haven, Admiral the Marquis of. 'British Naval Medals', London, 1919, 576; Sandwich, The Rt. Hon. the Earl of. 'British and Foreign medals relating to naval and maritime affairs', 2nd ed., London, 1950, N/16.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Death of Admiral Sir J. T. Duckworth, 1817
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- M.5586
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (229) (951)
