AUSTRALIA c. 1883 THE ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL 51mm MEDAL BY WYON

Copper prize medal, Award for Clinical Work, c. Obverse with bust of Alfred Roberts, reverse blank for inscription, within a beaded border. Roberts, who arrived in Sydney in 1853, was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital and in 1844 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Henry Parkes wrote of him (to Florence Nightingale), Mr Roberts is a respectable professional man...

A fussy, officious dilettante in all matters of sanitary reform, who spoils his own efforts to be useful by his desire to be the authority on all occasions. I cannot be held responsible for items lost in transit that have been sent uninsured.

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