1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62


1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62
1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62
1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62

1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62
Silver ” John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon ” Medal. Mint Year: 1827 Medallist: C. Certified and graded by NGC as MS-62! John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (a statesman and Lord Chancellor). 62gm Diameter: 47mm Material: Silver. Obverse: Draped and peruked bust of John Scott left. JOHN EARL OF ELDON LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN 1827. Reverse: Biographical information in twelve lines. Legend: BORN 4 JUNE 1751 CALLED TO THE BAR 1776 SOL. 1799 LORD CHANCELLOR 1801 RESIG THE SEALS 1806. RECALLED 1807 CONTINUED LORD CHANCELLOR UNTILL THE DEMISE OF GEORGE II. 1820 REAPPOINTED BY GEORGE IV. ON HIS ACCESSION AND CREATED VSC. ENCOMBE EARL OF ELDON 1821. John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, PC, QC, FRS, FSA (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838) was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827. Eldon was a loyal and tenacious supporter of the war against Napoleon; but when the prospect of a new war arose in 1823, he expressed rather different concerns: Men delude themselves by supposing that war consists only in a proclamation, a battle, a victory and a triumph. Of the soldiers’ widows and the soldiers’ orphans, after the fathers and husbands have fallen in the field of battle, the survivors think not. Shelley, however, in his. Challenged Eldon’s sincerity: “Next came Fraud and he had on, Like Eldon, an ermined gown – His big tears, for he wept well – Turned to millstones as they fell”. Eldon notoriously accused the political reformer Thomas Hardy of attempting to establish “representative government, the direct opposite of the government which is established here”. He himself was, however, criticised with equal force for not reforming the notoriously slow Court of Chancery, hence a cartoon of 1817 depicting him as leading a flight of lawyer-locusts descending on the law courts. Although labelled a Tory by the opposition and by subsequent historians, Eldon placed himself long-term in the Whig tradition, defending “a doctrine essentially similar to that which ministerial Whigs had held since the days of Burnet, Wake, Gibson and Potter”. As an Ultra-Tory, protesting against Catholic Emancipation, he sat with the Whigs during the 1830 parliamentary session and in 1825, following the defeat of the Tory Sir Francis Burdett’s Emancipation Bill in the House of Lords by a majority of 48, drank “the 48, the year 1688, and the glorious and immortal memory of William III”. In 1831, while returning to Purbeck in an open carriage from the declaration at the Dorset county election in the company of George Bankes, he was stoned at Wareham by a mob of a hundred men. Although there were no injuries, it was stated that he might have died had not an umbrella deflected one of the stones from his head. Nevertheless, in his unstinting opposition to the Great Reform Act as well as his belief in an unchanging Britain anchored in the values of 1688, he epitomised the reactionary values of what Palmerston called “the stupid old Tory party”. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins: World\Europe\UK (Great Britain)\Other UK Coins”. The seller is “coinworldtv” and is located in this country: AT. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Certification: NGC
  • Grade: MS 62
  • Year: 1827
  • Composition: Silver
  • KM Number: See detailed description section for full data!

1827, Great Britain. Silver John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Medal. NGC MS-62