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Auction: 6025 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 396

Royal Naval College, First Mathematical Prize 1817, silver medal, unsigned, 52mm., obverse, laureate head of George III right, (cf.BHM.621), reverse, AWARDED TO engraved ´Honble. Richd. Saunders Dundas. June. 1817.´ above an open wreath of palms and laurels, good very fine Estimate £ 300-500Vice Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas, K.C.B., (1802-61), son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville; educated Harrow and Royal Naval College Portsmouth; Captain 1824, commanding H.M.S. Volage on the South American station 1825, and H.M.S. Warspite in Australia 1827; acted as Secretary to his father, the First Sea Lord, 1828-30, and later served in the Mediterranean, South Africa, and the East Indies, including service during the First China War (C.B. 1841); Secretary to Lord Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1845-46; from 1848 served in the Mediterranean as Captain of H.M.S. Powerful; Rear Admiral 1853; Lord of the Admiralty 1853-1861; appointed to the command of the Baltic Fleet 1855, and in August that year the Baltic Fleet bombarded the Russian fortress of Sveaborg (K.C.B. 1856); Vice Admiral and Grand Officer of the Legion d´Honour 1858; Vice Admiral Dundas served as First Sea Lord until his death in 1861.

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