IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156611 accession number: CM.96-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 28 January 2013 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Edmund Parkes was a Victorian physician, whose principal fame is as a pioneer of hygiene using his experience as head of the civil hospital in the Dardanelles during the Crimean War. When the Army Medical School was established, he became Chair of Hygiene there and when he died in 1876 the School established this triennial prize in his memory, awarded to an executive officer on full pay submitting the best essay on the subject of hygiene. This award earnt the recipient 75 guineas and a gold medal, but a bronze medal was awarded annually to the best student in hygiene. The Museum's example is in bronze, but comes from the collection of a descendant of the designers, and bears no award inscription, so is probably a specimen example kept at the workshop. title: Edmund Parkes Memorial Prize Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Wyon Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156611 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1876 - 1876 creation date earliest: 1876 creation date latest: 1876 CREATORS -------- maker: Wyon, Joseph Shepherd maker: Royal Army Medical School maker: Wyon, Alfred Benjamin IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_96_2005_281_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_282_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_282_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_96_2005_282_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_96_2005_282_29.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels