103468 | GREAT BRITAIN. Botanical & Horticultural Society silver Award Medal.

103468  |  GREAT BRITAIN. Botanical & Horticultural Society silver Award Medal. Engraved and awarded in 1827 to Lieutenant Henry West, Esq. by the society based in Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle-on-Tyne (48mm, 39.47 g, 12h).

 

BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Flora, reaching toward potted plant to left and grapevine to right, seated right in front of gazebo; decorative potted plant to outer right; gardening tools in foreground; in two lines in exergue, INSTITUTED 1824 / SOCIETY // DURHAM NORTHUMBERLAND AND NEWCASTLE ON TYNE, "PRESENTED / to / LIEUt. WEST R. N. / for the best / DISH OF CHERRIES / 18 Augt 1827" engraved in six lines in various styles of scripts; all within complex floral wreath. Edge: Loop attached at the top, otherwise plain.

 

BHM –. Mint State. Deep gunmetal gray toning, with some delightful iridescence nearer the edges; some scattered hairlines are noted for completeness.

 

Lieutenant Henry West entered the Royal Navy in May 1801 as a midshipman. In the ensuing years, he would serve under Horatio Nelson in campaigns against France and Spain, eventually receiving his commission in 1808. Various campaigns in America would follow, with him being recalled to England in 1816. In 1831, he was promoted to the rank of commander. Personally, he married twice—first to his cousin (the only surviving daughter of Rev. Henry Cotes in County Durham) in 1822, and then, in 1828, to the youngest daughter of Samuel Huthwaite of County Northumberland.

 

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