1592970587000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141272 1747245964247 1711380464000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141272 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141272 ace7f6e2-cd66-3eac-a3c1-2ed943cf2ab4 8 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 extent to which foreign powers appeared to be able to intervene in nineteenth-century China without effective opposition from the Imperial dynasty led to considerable resentment among the population. In 1897 Germany, Russia, Britain and France seized four Chinese ports on various pretexts and this, with more local situations providing flashpoints, sparked off a military uprising by a resistance group called the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known in the West as Boxers. Starting in 1898 foreigners and Christian Chinese were subjected to increasingly brutal persecution by the Boxers, whom the Imperial Government, in the hands of the Dowager Empress Cixi, were now supporting as useful tools to remove foreign powers from China. It took the Western powers some time to assemble a coalition force strong enough (mostly Japanese, but with contingents from Russia, Britain, France, the USA, Germany, Italy and Austro-Hungary as well as some Chinese) to relieve the foreign population of Beijing and finally suppress the rebellion. The recipient of this medal, Stoker H. Devlin, served aboard HMS Fame, which due to the eagerness of its captain, Roger Keyes (at death Admiral of the Fleet and 1st Baron Keyes), to get into every possible fight, was one of two British destroyers which captured four brand-new Chinese ones of considerably more than twice their firepower without loss at the Taku Forts. Unlike his captain, however, who was by then on leave running supplies to Tientsin in a tugboat, Stoker Devlin earned the bar for the rapidly subsequent capture of the forts. His medal was purchased by Lester Watson at some point before 1928. CM.1178-2009 1 accession number CM.1178-2009 141272 priref 141272 Watson Catalogue 64 ordering M-0061 previous object number LW.0061 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141272 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141272 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX design Collection of war trophies including a royal shield below palm tree 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 1902 1902 1902 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London artist reference agent-174946 adlib-agent-174946 97851273-f820-36e3-970a-41d6d59650df Saulles, George W. de 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-174945 adlib-agent-174945 53c52c53-979d-3cdf-9a0b-6b7b691fe2dd Victoria regina et imperatrix reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 London reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 36.2 Weight g 37.66 reference media-116095 adlib-media-116095 28ad470b-11ab-34a8-80f4-e0021d1de8f1 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589708348 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589708348 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589708348 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589708348 1 image 0 media image reference media-116096 adlib-media-116096 6d60f745-c994-3512-93f5-9e5190ee79c3 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589710056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589710056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589710056 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0061_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 139 1742589710056 1 image 1 media image reference term-122787 adlib-term-122787 0ae1a11a-3806-3b23-842b-15b072e4393e Third China War 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-122712 adlib-term-122712 639b4532-b2cf-3f44-a24b-84974795c1a6 Royal Navy subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 460-462, 462, 462-463 reference publication-5886 adlib-publication-5886 a6056c29-399c-38dd-9710-5b3f2d44b8a6 British Battles and Medals 7th 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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