Australian Historical Medals

Lot 567    SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 23RD NOV)    Australian Historical Medals

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F.NORTON Manning Prize, Mental Hospital Dept N.S.W., in gold (9ct; 16.54g; 30.5mm), no maker, reverse inscribed, 'Alexander L.McGoldrick/Sessions/1932-1933-1934.'. Uncirculated.

Frederick Norton Manning?(25 February 1839 - 18 June 1903),?was a medical practitioner, naval surgeon, Inspector General of the Insane for the?Colony of New South Wales, and was an Australian Lunatic Asylum Superintendent. He was a leading figure in the establishment of a number of lunatic asylums in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria, and participated in inquests and reviews of asylums throughout the colonies. In fact when he first came to Australia in 1867 as a navy surgeon, via active service in New Zealand, he was invited by Henry Parkes to become medical superintendent of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, a job he accepted after further study of methods employed overseas and on 15 October 1868 he was appointed to the Tarban Creek position.

He had a distinguished career which can be viewed on Wikipedia. He died on 18 June 1903 and in accordance with his instructions he was buried in the cemetery at Gladesville Mental Hospital.

In September 1907 the University of Sydney received a letter from the honorary treasurer of the Dr F.Norton Manning memorial fund enclosing the sum of one hundred and twenty five pounds for a foundation of an annual prize in psychological medicine to be called the 'Dr F.Norton Manning Memorial Prize'. The University resolved that the gift be accepted with thanks.