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Patron's Medal | |
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![]() Patron's Medal awarded to Edmund Hillary | |
Awarded for | the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery |
Sponsored by | Sovereign of the United Kingdom |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | Royal Geographical Society |
First awarded | 1839 |
The Patron's Medal is a medal awarded annually by the Royal Geographical Society, upon approval of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, to individuals for "the encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery". Prior to 1902, the Patron's Medal was alternatively known as the Victoria Medal.
Foundation
[edit]From its foundation, the Royal Geographical Society received an annual grant from the Sovereign of the United Kingdom for awards with royal approval. The medal originated from an annual donation starting in 1831 of 50 guineas from King William IV.[1] The award was instituted as the Royal Premium or Royal Award, an annual cash prize.[2] When Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne, she announced her intention of continuing the grant commenced by her uncle.[3] The council ultimately decided to divide the grant into two gold medals of equal standing; the Founder’s Medal in memory of the founding patron King William IV and the Patron's Medal in recognition of the active royal patron of the society.[4]
Design
[edit]The medal, like the Founder's Medal, is a gold medallion designed by William Wyon, Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint. The reverse side shows a figure of Britannia, wearing a helmet and standing by a sextant and globe. She is holding a wreath in her outstretched right hand and a map in the left. The name of the recipient is engraved on the edge of the medal. The medal was struck in gold until 1974. From 1975 onwards it has been struck in silver-gilt. Exceptionally, on account of wars, the medals of 1918−21 and 1940 were struck in bronze.[5]
Award history
[edit]While generally awarded annually, the Patron's Medal was not awarded in the years 1851, 1943 and 1944. In 1851, the council awarded no gold medals and instead awarded 25 guinea prizes to each of Georg August Wallin and Thomas Brunner.[6] No awards were made in 1943 or 1944 on account of the Second World War.[7]
List of recipients
[edit]Year[7] | Name[7] | Image | Description | Award Rationale |
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1839 | Eduard Rüppell | ![]() |
German naturalist and explorer (1794-1884) | |
1840 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk | ![]() |
German explorer, botanist, and ichthyologist (1804-1865) | |
1841 | John Wood | Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer | ||
1842 | Edward Robinson | ![]() |
American Biblical scholar (1794-1863) | |
1843 | Julian Symonds | British Army officer and surveyor | ||
1844 | Georg Adolf Erman | ![]() |
German physicist | |
1845 | Carl Ritter | ![]() |
German geographer (1779-1859) | |
1846 | Alexander von Middendorff | ![]() |
Baltic German explorer and scientist (1815-1894) | |
1847 | Ludwig Leichhardt | ![]() |
German explorer of Australia (1813-1848) | |
1848 | Charles Wilkes | ![]() |
naval officer and explorer from the United States (1798-1877) | |
1849 | Charles von Hügel | ![]() |
Austrian noble, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer | |
1850 | John C. Frémont | ![]() |
American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890) | For his important geographical labours in the far West of the American Continent |
1852 | Henry Strachey | British explorer | ||
1853 | Edward Augustus Inglefield | ![]() |
British Royal Navy admiral (1820-1894) | |
1854 | Robert McClure | ![]() |
Royal Navy admiral and arctic explorer (1807-1873) | |
1855 | David Livingstone | ![]() |
Scottish explorer and missionary (1813-1873) | For his recent explorations in Africa |
1856 | Heinrich Barth | ![]() |
German explorer (1821-1865) | |
1857 | Andrew Scott Waugh | ![]() |
British army officer and Surveyor General of India (1810-1878) | |
1858 | Alexander Dallas Bache | ![]() |
American scientist (1806-1867) | |
1859 | John Palliser | ![]() |
British explorer | |
1860 | Leopold McClintock | ![]() |
Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy (1819-1907) | |
1861 | John McDouall Stuart | ![]() |
British explorer (1815-1866) | |
1862 | Thomas Blakiston | ![]() |
British zoologist | |
1863 | John Arrowsmith | ![]() |
British geographer | |
1864 | Karl Klaus von der Decken | ![]() |
German explorer (1833-1865) | |
1865 | Samuel Baker | ![]() |
British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist | |
1866 | William Chandless | ![]() |
Amazonian explorer, linguist | |
1867 | Isaac Israel Hayes | ![]() |
United States explorer and physician (1832-1881) | |
1868 | Gerhard Friedrich Rohlfs | ![]() |
German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer (1831-1896) | |
1869 | Mary Somerville | ![]() |
science writer and polymath (1780-1872) | |
1870 | Francis Garnier | French Navy officer (1839-1873) | ||
1871 | Alexander Keith Johnston | Scottish geographer | ||
1872 | Robert Barkley Shaw | English explorer | ||
1873 | Henry Morton Stanley | ![]() |
Welsh journalist and explorer (1841-1904) | |
1874 | Peter Egerton-Warburton | ![]() |
British military officer, Commissioner of Police for South Australia and Australian explorer (1813–1889) | |
1875 | Julius von Payer | ![]() |
Austrian mountain climber, painter, arctic explorer and nobleman (1841-1915) | |
1876 | John Forrest | ![]() |
Australian explorer and politician (1847-1918) | |
1877 | Nain Singh Rawat | ![]() |
Pundit who explored the Himalayas for the British | |
1878 | Henry Trotter | explorer | ||
1879 | William John Gill | English explorer | ||
1880 | Ernest Giles | ![]() |
explorer (1835-1897) | |
1881 | Benjamin Leigh Smith | ![]() |
British explorer and yacht racer (1828-1913) | |
1882 | John Kirk | ![]() |
Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922) | |
1883 | Edward Colborne Baber | British orientalist | ||
1884 | Julius von Haast | ![]() |
German-born New Zealand geologist (1822-1887) | |
1885 | Henry E. O'Neill | Royal Navy officer | ||
1886 | Guido Cora | Geographer and cartographer | ||
1887 | George Grenfell | ![]() |
Baptist missionary to Cameroon and explorer of Africa | |
1888 | Hermann Wissmann | ![]() |
German explorer and administrator in Africa (1853–1905) | |
1889 | Gustav Radde | ![]() |
German naturalist and explorer (1831-1903) | |
1890 | Francis Younghusband | ![]() |
British army explorer | |
1891 | Fridtjof Nansen | ![]() |
Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930) | |
1892 | Edward Whymper | ![]() |
British mountaineer | |
1893 | William Woodville Rockhill | ![]() |
American diplomat and Sinologist (1854–1914) | |
1894 | Élisée Reclus | ![]() |
French geographer and writer | |
1895 | George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | ![]() |
British politician (1859-1925) | |
1896 | St. George Littledale | ![]() |
English explorer | |
1897 | George Mercer Dawson | ![]() |
Canadian scientist | |
1898 | Robert Peary | ![]() |
explorer from the United States | |
1899 | Fernand Foureau | ![]() |
French explorer | |
1900 | James McCarthy | Irish surveyor | For great services to geographical science in exploring and mapping all parts of the kingdom of Siam | |
1901 | Arthur Donaldson Smith | ![]() |
American explorer (1866-1939) | |
1902 | Percy Sykes | ![]() |
British general, diplomat and scholar (1867–1945) | |
1903 | Otto Sverdrup | ![]() |
Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer (1854-1930) | |
1904 | Robert Falcon Scott | ![]() |
Royal Navy officer and explorer | |
1905 | Charles Henry Dudley Ryder | British surveyor in India | ||
1906 | Robert Bell | ![]() |
Canadian geologist | |
1907 | Roald Amundsen | ![]() |
Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole | |
1908 | Albert I, Prince of Monaco | ![]() |
Prince of Monaco (1848-1922) | |
1909 | Milo Talbot | ![]() |
British army officer, surveyor and collector, 1854-1931 | |
1910 | William Speirs Bruce | ![]() |
Scottish marine biologist and antarctic explorer | |
1911 | Jean-Baptiste Charcot | ![]() |
French scientist (1867-1936) | |
1912 | Douglas Carruthers | British explorer and naturalist (1882-1962) | ||
1913 | Edward Adrian Wilson | ![]() |
English polar explorer (1872–1912) | |
1914 | Alexander H. Rice, Jr. | ![]() |
American geologist | |
1915 | Filippo De Filippi | ![]() |
Italian physician, scientist and explorer | |
1916 | Frederick Marshman Bailey | ![]() |
British political officer in India (1882-1967) | |
1917 | Cecil Rawling | ![]() |
British general, explorer and author | |
1918 | Jean Auguste Marie Tilho | ![]() |
French explorer and military personnel (1875-1956) | |
1919 | William Morris Davis | ![]() |
American geographer | |
1920 | Jovan Cvijić | ![]() |
Serbian scientist | |
1921 | Robert Bourgeois | French politician, military officer and geographer (1857-1945) | ||
1922 | Ernest de Koven Leffingwell | American geologist and explorer (1875-1971) | ||
1923 | Staniforth Smith | ![]() |
Australian politician, explorer & civil servant (1869-1934) | |
1924 | Frank Wild | ![]() |
British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939) | |
1925 | Sandy Wollaston | ![]() |
British explorer and biologist (1875-1930) | |
1926 | Edgeworth David | ![]() |
Australian geologist | |
1927 | Lauge Koch | ![]() |
Danish geologist (1892-1964) | |
1928 | Hubert Wilkins | ![]() |
Australian polar explorer (1888-1958) | |
1929 | Charles Karius | ![]() |
Australian explorer, magistrate & civil servant | |
1930 | Carsten Borchgrevink | ![]() |
Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer | |
1931 | Richard E. Byrd | ![]() |
American naval officer, explorer (1888-1957) | |
1932 | Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta | ![]() |
Italian prince and navy officer (1900-1948) | |
1933 | Erich von Drygalski | ![]() |
German geographer | |
1934 | Ejnar Mikkelsen | ![]() |
Danish explorer and writer | |
1935 | Willi Rickmer Rickmers | ![]() |
German explorer | |
1936 | Robert Ernest Cheesman | British explorer | ||
1937 | Lincoln Ellsworth | ![]() |
American explorer | |
1938 | Eric Shipton | British explorer | ||
1939 | Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann | ![]() |
Swedish glaciologist and diplomat (1889-1974) | |
1940 | Sandy Glen | British explorer | ||
1941 | Isaiah Bowman | American geographer | ||
1942 | Owen Lattimore | ![]() |
American scholar of Central Asia (1900-1989) | |
1945 | Halford Mackinder | ![]() |
English geographer, academic, and politician (1861-1947) | |
1946 | Henry Larsen | ![]() |
Canadian explorer | |
1947 | Daniël van der Meulen | Dutch diplomat, explorer and writer (1894-1989) | ||
1948 | Thomas Henry Manning | British-Canadian Arctic explorer | ||
1949 | Hans Pettersson | ![]() |
physicist | |
1950 | Harald Sverdrup | ![]() |
Norwegian oceanographer (1888-1957) | |
1951 | Donald Thomson | ![]() |
Australian anthropologist and ornithologist and Indigenous rights campaigner | |
1952 | Paul-Émile Victor | ![]() |
French explorer | |
1953 | Eigil Knuth | Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer (1903-1996) | ||
1954 | Neil A. Mackintosh | marine biologist (1900-1974) | For research and exploration in the Southern Ocean | |
1955 | James Simpson | British explorer (1911-2002) | ||
1956 | Charles Evans | British mountain climber | ||
1957 | George Binney | Royal Naval Reserve commander | ||
1958 | Edmund Hillary | ![]() |
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919-2008) | |
1959 | Raymond Priestley | ![]() |
English geologist, British Army officer and military historian | |
1960 | Théodore Monod | ![]() |
French naturalist and explorer (1902-2000) | |
1961 | John Bartholomew | British cartographer (1890-1962) | ||
1962 | Tom Harrisson | polymath | ||
1963 | Albert P. Crary | ![]() |
American geophysicist | |
1964 | Thor Heyerdahl | ![]() |
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002) | |
1965 | Lester Charles King | British geologist | ||
1966 | Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith | British geologist (1923-2012) | ||
1967 | Eduard Imhof | ![]() |
Swiss cartographer and professor at ETH Zurich (1895-1986) | |
1968 | Augusto Gansser-Biaggi | ![]() |
Swiss geologist (1910-2012) | |
1969 | Edward Timothy Tozer | paleontologist (1928-2010) | ||
1969 | Raymond Thorsteinsson | Canadian geologist | ||
1970 | Haroun Tazieff | ![]() |
French volcanologist, geologist (1914-1998) | |
1971 | Charles Swithinbank | British glaciologist | ||
1972 | Michael Douglas Gwynne | biologist and botanical collector (1932-2012) | Leader, the RGS’s South Turkana (Kenya] Expedition | |
1973 | Edgar Hynes Thompson | photogrammetric surveyor (1910-1976) | Professor of photogrammetry and surveying, University College London | |
1974 | Gordon de Quetteville Robin | glaciologist (1921-2004) | For polar research and exploration | |
1975 | Joachim Kuettner | ![]() |
German-American scientist | |
1976 | Edmund George Irving | ![]() |
Naval officer (1910-1990) | |
1977 | Kenneth Hare | Canadian geographer and climatologist (1919-2002) | ||
1978 | Mieczysław Klimaszewski | Polish geographer (1908-1995) | For his contributions to geomorphology and international understanding in Geography | |
1979 | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | English Explorer | ||
1980 | Preston E. James | American geographer | ||
1981 | Valter Schytt | Swedish glaciologist | ||
1982 | Douglas Ernest Warren | surveyor (1918-1993) | ||
1983 | John Young | ![]() |
American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer | |
1984 | Pierre Gourou | French geographer | ||
1985 | Walter Smith | English land surveyor | ||
1986 | Peter Haggett | ![]() |
eminent British geographer and academic | |
1987 | Richard Chorley | ![]() |
English geographer (1927-2002) | |
1988 | Nigel Winser | |||
1989 | Keith Clayton | British geographer and environmental scientist | ||
1990 | Richard Leakey | ![]() |
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician | |
1991 | Helge Ingstad | ![]() |
Norwegian explorer | |
1991 | Anne Stine Ingstad | ![]() |
Norwegian archaeologist (1918-1997) | |
1992 | Martin Holdgate | British biologist | ||
1993 | John Blashford-Snell | British army officer and explorer | ||
1994 | Ghillean Prance | British botanist (1937-) | ||
1995 | David Harvey | ![]() |
British geographer and anthropologist | |
1996 | John Barrie Thornes | geographer and geomorphologist | ||
1997 | David William Rhind | British geographer | ||
1998 | David Drewry | British scientist | ||
1999 | Doug Scott | ![]() |
British mountaineer (1941-2020) | |
2000 | Crispin Tickell | ![]() |
British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic (1930–2022) | |
2001 | Reinhold Messner | ![]() |
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer | |
2002 | David Keeble | British economic geographer | ||
2003 | Harish Kapadia | ![]() |
Indian mountain climber | |
2004 | Sydney Possuelo | ![]() |
Brazilian explorer | |
2005 | Jean Malaurie | ![]() |
French anthropologist and physicist | |
2006 | Jack D. Ives | ![]() |
Canadian montologist | |
2007 | Paul Curran | British geographer, President of City University London | ||
2008 | H. Jesse Walker | American geographer | ||
2009 | Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford | ![]() |
British economist and academic (born 1946) | |
2010 | Jack Dangermond | ![]() |
American businessman | |
2011 | Sylvia Earle | ![]() |
American oceanographer | |
2012 | Alastair Fothergill | ![]() |
British producer | |
2013 | Michael Palin | ![]() |
Britiish comedian, actor, writer and television presenter | |
2014 | Hans Rosling | ![]() |
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker | |
2015 | Paul Theroux | ![]() |
American travel writer and novelist | |
2016 | Bob Geldof | ![]() |
Irish singer-songwriter, author and political activist (born 1951) | |
2017 | Lindsey Hilsum | ![]() |
British journalist | |
2018 | Yadvinder Malhi | ![]() |
Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford | For world leading studies on the impact of climate change on tropical ecosystems |
2019 | Fiona Reynolds | British civil servant and academic administrator | For her contribution to environmental protection, conservation and the preservation of the British landscape | |
2020 | Michael T. Jones | ![]() |
American businessman and software developer (1960–2021) | |
2021 | Rita Gardner | Chief Executive of the Academy of Social Sciences | For the widespread advancement of geography across all its sub-disciplines through her Directorship of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) | |
2022 | Jane Francis | ![]() |
Director of the British Antarctic Survey | For her contributions to the earth and environmental sciences |
2023 | Felix Driver | Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London | For his contributions to historical geography and to the Society | |
2024 | Stephen Venables | British mountaineer and writer | For his lifetime’s contribution to geographical discovery in the high mountains of the world |
References
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