Medal with legend "Victoria Regina" [realia]. [1837]

Turner, Sydney George, 1880-

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Corporation of London (England)

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...

Wyon, William, 1795-1851

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English engraver and medallist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : n.p., [London], to P. Melvill, 1848 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584414 Ward Nicholas Boylston (1749-1828), a Harvard benefactor, was born Ward Hallowell in Boston on November 22, 1749. In 1770, Boylston changed his name to Ward Nicholas Boylston in honor of his maternal uncle Nicholas Boylston. In the 1770s, Boylston traveled through Europe before settling in London in 1775 as a ...