Courage Of The Highest Order: The Stanhope Medal Of The Royal Humane Society 1873-1994 (O.M.S.A. medal notes #6) (1998) By Jack Boddington K. St. J.
The Stanhope Gold Medal is the highest honour bestowed by the Royal Humane Society. It was founded in 1873, in memory of Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope, a recipient of the Society’s silver medal, who died of smallpox in Malta in 1871 at the age of 48.
The Stanhope Memorial Fund gave a donation to the Society of £400, to fund an annual gold medal, to be called the Stanhope Medal. Thereafter, this was presented to the holder of the Society’s silver medal, judged to be the most meritorious for the year.
In 1962, the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society (LS&HS), the Royal Humane Society of Australasia (RHSA), the Royal Humane Society of New South Wales (RHSNSW), the Royal Canadian Humane Association (RCHA), and the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand (RHSNZ) were invited to submit annual nominations for the Stanhope Gold Medal. In 2014, the Foundation for Civilian Bravery – Sri Lanka (FCB-SL) was additionally invited to submit nominations.
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