Great Exhibition, Services Medal
This 'For Services' Medal was presented to individuals and companies in gratitude for services rendered to the Great Exhibition of 1851. The medals were inscribed with the recipients name around the outside edge and awarded alongside a certificate illustrated with engravings of the medal design, and signed by Prince Albert as President of the Royal Commission. They also received an octavo (small) bound copy of the extensive Juries@ reports on the exhibits and prize award winners.
Robert Stephenson features in the painting "The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851",by Henry Wyndham Phillips.
His maiden speech on becoming the M.P. for Whitby in 1847 was in favour of the Great Exhibition, becoming a commissioner along with Brunel.
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