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Patron's Medal
Patron's Medal awarded to Edmund Hillary
Awarded forthe encouragement and promotion of geographical science and discovery
Sponsored bySovereign of the United Kingdom
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byRoyal Geographical Society
First awarded1839

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

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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

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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

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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

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Year[7] Name[7] Image Description Award Rationale
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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  2. ^ Cumming, Duncan (July 1977), "Royalty and the Royal Geographical Society", The Geographical Journal, 143 (2): 171–178, doi:10.2307/1795871, JSTOR 1795871
  3. ^ Markham, Clements R (1881), The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society, London: London J. Murray, p. 60, OCLC 2773780
  4. ^ "At the Annual General Meeting, May 27, 1839: Report from the Council", Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 9, London: iii–viii, 1839, JSTOR 1797709
  5. ^ CHEEK, JEREMY, ROYAL PRIZE MEDALS (PDF), British Numismatic Society
  6. ^ "Royal Geographical Society", Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 36, london: John Murray: lxxxi, 1866, JSTOR 1798483
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