Diplomas of honorary membership

Diplomas of honorary membership. The diplomas were issued to recipients likely to make a financial contribution to the Institution. They are printed, with the name of the recipient and the date added in manuscript. The design by James George Oben shows the terrestrial globe shrouded in clouds, through which the sun is breaking. The sunlight frames what appears to be a winged vase, seemingly representing vaccination coming to the aid of the world.

Comprised of the followig:

MS.5247/1: Diploma of honorary membership: James Cooper, surgeon, 16 September 1816

MS.5247/2: Diploma of honorary membership: George Fitzgerald, surgeon, 16 September 1816

MS.5247/3: Diploma of honorary membership: Samuel Rogers, 18 December 1816

MS.5247/4: Diploma of honorary membership: George Smith, 21 March 1817

MS.5247/5: Diploma of honorary membership: Lewis Peacock, 9 August 1822

MS.5247/6: Diploma of honorary membership: Mrs Hall, 3 March 1823

MS.5247/7: Diploma of honorary membership: John Flaxman, 2 April 1823

MS.5247/8: Diploma of honorary membership: J Foot, 25 March 1824

MS.5247/9: Diploma of honorary membership: R H Martin, 23 July 1824

MS.5247/10: Diploma of honorary membership: William Hales, 9 July 1825

MS.5247/11: Diploma of honorary membership: Thomas Gore, 4 July 1826

MS.5247/12: Diploma of honorary membership: Charles Alexander Craig, 10 November 1826

MS.5247/13: Diploma of honorary membership: Edward Hatfield, 6 February 1828

MS.5247/14: Diploma of honorary membership: Samuel Houston, 12 June 1828

MS.5247/15: Diploma of honorary membership: Henry Pownall, 2 February 1832

MS.5247/16: Diploma of honorary membership: Joshua Bedford, 6 November 1832

MS.5247/17: Letter from Andrew Johnstone, sub-treasurer of the Institution, to Edward Harman, presenting a diploma, October 1823

1816-1832

17 items Various sizes (largest, probably as issued, 566 × 380 mm.).

Collected from various sources.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).