MB. A3. Bare.
The Duke of Newcastle was elected Chancellor of the University
of Cambridge in Dec. 1748, and in 1751 he founded two
377. Chancellor’s Medal, Cambridge.
gold medals, to be given annually to two candidates who excelled
in classical learning. The two first prizes were adjudged in
March, 1752, to Bishop Porteus and Baron Maseres.
378. W il l ia m C h e s e l d e n . Died, 11 April, 1752.
Bust of Cheselden, r., in cap and shirt with open collar.
Leg. c h e s e l d e n . Below, w. wyon s c . m in t .
Rev. The body of a man laid out for dissection : in the background,
on a table decorated with the arms of St. Thomas’s
Hospital, are a skull, book, and vases; above is a human leg
which has been dissected. Leg. mors vivts sa lv s . (Death is
safety to the living.) Ex. s? Thomas’s h o s p it a l , w wyon s
m in t .
2-85. Num. Journ. II. p. 10.
MB. A3. Rare.
This is a prize medal of St. Thomas’s Hospital. It was
founded by the late George Yaughan, and is annually awarded
to the fourth year’s student who most distinguishes himself in
a practical examination in surgery and surgical anatomy.
William Cheselden, the eminent surgeon and anatomist, born
19 Oct. 1688, at Burrow-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire, studied
anatomy under Cowper, and surgery under Perne of St.Thomas’s
Hospital. He began his lectures on anatomy at the age of
twenty-two, and in the following year was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society. He was appointed head-surgeon of St.
Thomas’s Hospital and consulting surgeon for St. George’s and
the Westminster Infirmary, and later on principal surgeon to
Queen Caroline. In 1737 he was chosen head-surgeon to
Chelsea Hospital, and he held that post till his death in April,
1752. Cheselden was the most skilful operator of his time,
especially as a lithotomist, and his works on surgery are numerous
; he was also a frequent contributor to the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society.
379. W il l ia m V ., P r in c e o f Or a n g e . K n ig h t o f t h e
G a r t e r . 4 June, 1752.
Bust of William of Orange, r., in hat with feathers, mantle,
collar and George of the Garter; his left hand grasps his
sword. Leg. w il h . v . d : g . p r . ar . e t n . fo e d . b e l g .
l ib . gvb . haer. (William V., by the grace of God, Prince of
Orange and Nassau, Hereditary Governor of united liberated
Holland.) On truncation, i. g . h . f . (Johann Georg Holtzhey
fecit.)
Rev. St. George and the Dragon, within the Garter. Leg.
e q v e s c rea tv s d ie v iv n y . m d c c l h . (Created a Knight, 5
June, 1752.) i. G. h o l t z h e y . f e c .
1'5. Van Loon, Suppl. xxx. 326.
Hague, At. - I Yery rare.
William Y. of Orange, grandson of George II., was elected
a Knight of the Garter on the 13th March, 1752, and installed
by proxy on the 4th June following, and not on the 5th, as
stated on this medal.