1080407 | GREAT BRITAIN. Wellington College. (1922) ND AV Medal of 16 Ducats Weight. PCGS SP63. By B. Mackennal and L. C. Wyon. Edge: Lettered, Kenneth Harwood Crossley. 44mm. 55.7gm. Uniformed bare-head bust of King George V, left; signed on truncation / Three-line inscription; beaded circle with legend around. cf. BHM-2686.

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Originally founded to serve the educational needs of orphaned sons of commissioned officers, Wellington College first opened in 1859. Queen Victoria granted that a medal be annually awarded to the boy of "the finest and noblest character..." and this was intended to encourage students to emulate the virtues of the Duke of Wellington.

These medals were first awarded in 1860. Kenneth Harwood Crossley, the medal recipient in 1922, was the son of the honored chemist Sir William Arthur Crossley and Muriel Lamb, married in 1901. A few months after Sir William died in 1927, Kenneth, just 23-years old at the time, tragically "drowned in a sailing accident off Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey" as was reported in the Journal of the Chemical Society.