Awards & Winners

1859 Gold Medal

Check winners and nominations of 1859 Gold Medal. Check awards winners of 1859 Gold Medal Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

1859 Gold Medal Ceremony

Founder's Gold Medal

Richard Francis Burton

(For his various exploratory enterprises, and especially for his perilous expedition with Captain. J. H. Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa)
Patron's Gold Medal

John Palliser

(For the valuable results of his explorations in the Rocky mountains of North America)