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University of Oxford, Weldon Medal, a bronze award by A.G. Wyon for Pinches, bust of Walter...
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University of Oxford, Weldon Medal, a bronze award by A.G. Wyon for Pinches, bust of Walter Weldon right, rev. legend, edge named (Awarded to Charles Goring, B. Sc., M.D. Lond., 1914), 64mm (MJP p.220). Virtually as struck £40-£60 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1152 (part); J. Galst Collection. Charles Buckman Goring (1870-1919), pioneer criminologist; educ. University of London, MD 1903; his crowning achievement was The English Convict: A Statistical Study, first published in 1913. It set out to establish whether there were any significant physical or mental abnormalities among the criminal classes that set them apart from ordinary men. Under the sponsorship of the British government, Goring, assisted by other prison medical officers, collected and analysed data bearing upon 96 traits of each of over 3,000 English convicts then serving time. Goring, Chief Medical Officer at HMP Strangeways, Manchester, died in May 1919, a victim of the Spanish influenza epidemic
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University of Oxford, Weldon Medal, a bronze award by A.G. Wyon for Pinches, bust of Walter Weldon right, rev. legend, edge named (Awarded to Charles Goring, B. Sc., M.D. Lond., 1914), 64mm (MJP p.220). Virtually as struck £40-£60 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1152 (part); J. Galst Collection. Charles Buckman Goring (1870-1919), pioneer criminologist; educ. University of London, MD 1903; his crowning achievement was The English Convict: A Statistical Study, first published in 1913. It set out to establish whether there were any significant physical or mental abnormalities among the criminal classes that set them apart from ordinary men. Under the sponsorship of the British government, Goring, assisted by other prison medical officers, collected and analysed data bearing upon 96 traits of each of over 3,000 English convicts then serving time. Goring, Chief Medical Officer at HMP Strangeways, Manchester, died in May 1919, a victim of the Spanish influenza epidemic
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