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Plymouth Dock Renamed Devonport

Medal
1824 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Ellis, R. (medallist)
Ramsey, J. (medallist)
Place of origin
England (made)

This medal commemorates the renaming of the city of Plymouth Dock into Devonport. Devonport was founded as a dockyard in the reign of William III, called Plymouth Dock. It received the name of Devonport from George IV in 1823 in a reply to a petition to him from the inhabitants for a change of name.


Object details

Categories
Coins & Medals
Sculpture
Object type
Medal
TitlePlymouth Dock Renamed Devonport (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Bronze
Bronze
Brief description
Medal, bronze, Plymouth Dock Renamed Devonport, by R. Ellis and J. Ramsey, English, 1824
Physical description
Obverse: Inscription.
Reverse: Neptune stands in a shell decorated with a medallion portrait of George IV and drawn by hippocamps, pointing towards the dockyard. Fame flies above, holding a trumpet and a scroll inscribed 'Devonport'. Inscription.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 5.48cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'IN GRATEFUL / COMMEMORATION / OF THE CONDESCENSION / OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS / MAJESTY GEORGE IV, / WHO CONFERED UPON THE TOWN / FORMERLY KNOWN AS / PLYMOUTH DOCK / THE NAME OF / DEVONPORT. / ANN.DOM. / MDCCCXXIV' [and signed] 'J.RAMSET.DIREX' (obverse)
  • [on scroll] 'Devonport' '[and above] 'PORTUS ET ARA TUIS' [and signed] 'R.ELLIS.DEL' (reverse)
    Translation
    'a port and shrine for your people'
Object history
Given by Professor J. Hull Grundy and Mrs. Ann Hull Grundy, in 1978.
Subjects depicted
Shell
Dockyard
Neptune
George IV
Place depicted
Devonport
Summary
This medal commemorates the renaming of the city of Plymouth Dock into Devonport. Devonport was founded as a dockyard in the reign of William III, called Plymouth Dock. It received the name of Devonport from George IV in 1823 in a reply to a petition to him from the inhabitants for a change of name.
Bibliographic reference
Brown, Lawrence. British Historical Medals 1760-1960, Vol I, The Accession of George III to the Death of William IV, London, 1980, cat. no. 1244
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
A.112-1978

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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