Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Jamaica, Death of the Earl of Effingham, 1791, a silver medal by J. Milton, bust left, rev. Britannia seated on globe, edge lettered, 35mm, 23.14g (Stainton 9; BHM 353; E 844). About extremely fine £90-120

Provenance: SNC November 1978 (13335); ‘Papillon’ Collection, Bonhams Auction, 25 March 1998, lot 183, part.

Howard’s early career was in the British army. He famously resigned his commission in protest against the war against the American Colonies where, in 1777, the colonists named the USS Effingham after him. There is also an Effingham county in Georgia. He went on to serve as Deputy Earl Marshal of England, Treasurer of the King’s Household (1782) and from 1784 as Master of the Mint. He died at the age of 45, having served only a month and five days as Governor of Jamaica. See also lot 1192