1592963646000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141611 1747245966797 1711380523000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141611 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141611 c768cf8c-c0e0-3f46-afaf-feaf8fcb947c 7 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The numerous campaigns of the forces of the British East India Company were not officially recognised with a medal until 1851. The resulting medal covered battles from 1799 to 1826, so many of those involved were no longer living. Queen Victoria, by whose order the medal was issued and whose bust it therefore carried, was likewise not on the throne for the actions for which it was awarded. The bar for Bhurtpoor relates to a siege of the city of Bharatpur, capital of the Jat Empire. In 1825 the Rajah of Bharatpur had died, and his infant son been imprisoned by a cousin who then took the throne and began to voice decidedly anti-British sentiments. An initial British decision not to act was taken as weakness, and the usurper gathered a threatening army. British forces were therefore sent to capture the legendarily-impregnable city, which they did at length by mining in January 1826. The infant Rajah was restored, but the ramparts of his city were levelled. This medal was awarded to Lieutenant George Warren of the European Regiment, who was a Brigadier by the time of its award to him, which has been verified. Brigadier Warren's medal group has come as one into the Watson Collection and the Catalogue considers them as Group 9, but as the pieces are not physically attached they are treated separately here. Lester Watson purchased them as a group from the London dealers Baldwin in 1931. CM.1512-2009 1 accession number CM.1512-2009 141611 priref 141611 Watson Catalogue 138 ordering M-0400 previous object number LW.0367b uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141611 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141611 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Victory seated facing left before palm and war spoils, holding laurel branch and wreath reverse design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1851 1851 1851 mint reference agent-167755 adlib-agent-167755 627a5b0f-5cae-3ff7-a61b-7f2fe07b5c96 Calcutta issuer reference agent-167567 adlib-agent-167567 5ce1f666-30e0-383b-bee5-fff00c8b2f38 East India Company artist reference agent-174941 adlib-agent-174941 8ba653dd-3bef-332c-a3cb-822cc499c1fd Wyon, William ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) with the title of ruler reference agent-174943 adlib-agent-174943 9c2be08c-ce74-3f9c-b796-3c936a5088e0 Victoria regina reference term-123133 adlib-term-123133 f13e3f6e-a3e0-3063-8865-7cbee4ef9327 Calcutta reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 36.1 Weight g 45.82 reference media-116773 adlib-media-116773 c1c808e7-75bc-331a-8b9b-6614c64396bf jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589859176 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589859176 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589859176 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589859176 1 image 0 media image reference media-116774 adlib-media-116774 2398869e-4839-35dd-ba5b-d7f9c7cd40a8 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 140 1742589801153 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 140 1742589801153 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 140 1742589801153 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0367b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 140 1742589801153 1 image 1 media image reference term-122852 adlib-term-122852 d91acf02-762a-3e7b-87a9-6b5dded9e3b1 Army of India Medal denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-107681 adlib-term-107681 e80da827-45c6-3b71-a3ef-28794a05e4a8 Britain subsubseries reference term-122717 adlib-term-122717 140af9ad-d215-34d9-9d42-52ecb5d3fead British Army subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1931 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 108-109, 113 reference publication-5892 adlib-publication-5892 1ad25efa-815c-3604-8564-8e568865b843 British Battles and Medals 1st edn reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

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