Historical Medals

Eton College, Duke of Newcastle Medal, 1833, a gold award by W. Wyon, bust of Duke right, rev. legend within wreath, edge named (Benjamin Fossett Lock 1867), 36mm, 31.41g (BHM 1646; MJP p.39). A few hairlines and light scratch in reverse field, otherwise about extremely fine; in contemporary fitted but mismatched case £2,000-£2,600

Benjamin Fossett Lock (1847-1922), attended Dorchester Grammar School, and was elected a King's scholar at Eton, and in due course a scholar of King's Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1871. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1873, and joined the Chancery Bar, the Western Circuit, and the Dorset Sessions; he also practised as an equity draftsman and conveyancer. In 1913 he was appointed County Court Judge of Circuit 16 (East Riding and parts of North and West Ridings of Yorkshire).