Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1851 (awarded in 1853), 65.50 g. Harrow School, The Joseph Neeld Prize Medal for the 'Best Proficient in Mathematics'. By L. C. Wyon. Bust, bare. JOSEPHUS NEELD SCHOLAE HARROVIENSIS CUSTOS ATQUE GUBERNATOR. Rv. Within olive-wreath. DILIGENTIAE IN STUD . MATHEMAT . PRÆMIUM ANNUUM JOSEPHUS NEELD HARROVIENSIS HARROVIENSIBUS PROPOSUIT. A . S . MDCCCLI. Edge engraving: COUTTS TROTTER 1853. 45.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Sehr selten / Very rare. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Kleine Randschläge / Minor edge bumps.

From the auction Baldwin's of St James's 49, London, October 2020, lot 1086.

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I. Its list of distinguished alumni includes seven former British prime ministers: Aberdeen, Perceval, Goderich, Peel, Palmerston, Baldwin and Churchill, as well as the former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; numerous former and current members of both Houses of the UK Parliament, several members of various royal families, three Nobel Prize winners, twenty Victoria Cross holders, and many prominent figures in the arts and sciences.

This medal has been awarded for outstanding performances in Mathematics in 1853. Coutts Trotter was the second recipient. He became a Lyon Scholar in 1854. Coutts Trotter (1837-1887), a physicist and academic administrator, attended Trinity College Cambridge where, later in 1885, he was appointed Vice-Master.