Plymouth Dockyard Renamed Devonport
Plymouth Dockyard Renamed Devonport, white metal medal, 1824, after R. Ellis for T. Halliday, Neptune standing in a marine car pointing towards the dockyard. Fame with a trumpet and scroll inscbed, DEVONPORT FORTUS ET ARA TUIS (DEVONPORT A HARBOUR AND SHRINE FOR YOUR PEOPLE), rev. legend in twelve lines, IN GRATEFUL COMMEMORATION OF THE CONDESCENSION OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE IV, WHO CONFERED (SIC) UPON THE TOWN FORMERLY KNOWN AS PLYMOUTH DOCK THE NAME OF DEVONPORT ANN. DOM. MDCCCXXIV', 54 mm, (BHM. 1244). Extremely fine with some original colour. £Sold
Devonport was founded as a dockyard in the reign of William III and first called Plymouth Dock. It received its present name from George IV in 1823 in a reply to a petition to him from the inhabitants for a change of name.
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