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THE Council of the Royal Society of Arts, with the approval of the president, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, has awarded the Albert Medal for 1936 to the Earl of Derby, “for the advancement of Commerce and Arts especially in Lancashire”. The Albert Medal, instituted in 1863 as a memorial of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, who for eighteen years was president of the Royal Society of Arts, is awarded for “distinguished merit in promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce”. The list of past recipients includes the names of many persons of the highest distinction, both in Great Britain and abroad; of the seventy-five awards which have been made, no less than forty-one have been to ordinary fellows and nine to foreign members of the Royal Society. Last year's Albert Medal was awarded to Sir Robert Hadfield.
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Award of the Albert Medal to Lord Derby. Nature 137, 941 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137941b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137941b0