St Peter's Medal

The St Peter's Medal is awarded annually by the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) for contributions to the surgical field of urology.

St Peter's Medal
Awarded forContributions to the surgical field of urology
Date1949
Hosted byBritish Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS)
Highlights
First recipientJ. B. Macalpine

The medal was designed and produced by sculptor William Bloye of the Birmingham School of Art and presented to the BAUS in 1948 by Bernard Joseph Ward, the BAUS's first vice-president. The first medal was awarded in 1949 to J. B. Macalpine who was the first to report bladder cancers associated with the dye industry. St Peter on the medal is identified by a key engraved on the bible that he holds. On the reverse is a laurel wreath within which the recipient's name is engraved, and around the circumference are the names of Edwin Hurry Fenwick, Peter Freyer and John Thomson-Walker.

Origin and history
St. Peter's Hospital, Covent Garden, London.

The St Peter's Medal was designed and produced by sculptor William Bloye of the Birmingham School of Art, for the purpose of being awarded to a person who has made significant contributions to the field of urology and is a member of the British Isles or Commonwealth.[1]

The stamping die for the medal was presented to the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) in 1948 by Bernard Joseph Ward, the BAUS's first vice-president and urologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.[2][3][4] The first medal was awarded in 1949 to J. B. Macalpine who first reported bladder cancers associated with the dye industry.[5][6] It has subsequently been awarded annually by the BAUS, usually to one recipient, apart from 1951, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2014, when there were two recipients.[2]

The medal is engraved with the names of the three teachers who influenced Bernard Ward: Edwin Hurry Fenwick, Peter Freyer and John Thomson-Walker.[4] On presenting the medal in 1948, Ward stated in his speech that "although they were individually attached to other hospitals, they all came together in one hospital, St. Peter's; and the suggestion therefore was that in order to honour all three of them, we should call it the St. Peter's Medal.[4] The hospital, the first urological hospital in Britain, was named after Saint Peter, whose name derives from the Latin for rock, petrus, and who was said by Christ to be the foundation upon which the Christian church was to be constructed.[7][8]

St Peter on the medal is identified by the iconography of a key engraved on the bible that he holds.[4] On the reverse of the medal is a laurel wreath, within which the recipient's name is engraved, and around the wreath are the names of Fenwick, Freyer and Thomson-Walker.[4]

Recipients

In 1951, the medal was presented for the second time, and for the first time to two recipients, when Ronald Ogier Ward and Terence J. Millin were given the award.[9] In 1959 the medal was awarded to Harold H. Hopkins, a physicist,[10] and in 2006 to Alison Brading, a physiologist.[11] Other recipients have included Sir Michael Woodruff, Richard Turner-Warwick, John Wickham, Howard Kynaston, Geoffrey Chisholm, John M. Fitzpatrick, Roger Kirby and Prokar Dasgupta.[2][12]

Influence

In 1975 the International Medical Society of Paraplegia proposed to offer a similar award based on the BAUS's St Peter's Medal.[13]

See also

References
  1. Celebrating the past present and future of Urology, preliminary program. British Association of Urological Surgeons 2020, 75th annual meeting program. November 2020, p.53.
  2. "Medals & Awards". www.baus.org.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. "Ward, Bernard Joseph (1879–1950)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Royal College of surgeons of England. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. "Presentation of the St. Peter's Medal to the British Association of Urological Surgeons by Mr. Bernard Ward". British Journal of Urology. 20 (4): 165–166. 1948. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.1948.tb10733.x. ISSN 1464-410X.
  5. "JB ("Jim") Macalpine | The British Association of Urological Surgeons Limited". www.baus.org.uk. BAUS. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  6. "Prestigious award for urological cancer surgeon". Research & Innovation. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  7. Goddard, Jonathan Charles (2018). "The Arms of British Urology". Trends in Urology & Men's Health. 9 (1): 32–33. doi:10.1002/tre.620. ISSN 2044-3749.
  8. Macduff, John Ross (1877). The Footsteps of St. Peter: Being the Life and Times of the Apostle. R. Carter. p. 131.
  9. Goddard, Jonathan Charles (2013). "Ronald Ogier Ward, urologist, hero & first president of BAUS". BJU International. 111 (S3): 4–7. doi:10.1111/bju.12179. ISSN 1464-410X. S2CID 116692949.
  10. McCombie, Charles W.; Smith, Joseph C. (1 November 1998). "Harold Horace Hopkins. 6 December 1918–22 October 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 44: 239–252. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1998.0016.
  11. Brain, K.L. (March 2011). "Obituary: Professor Alison Brading, PhD". Neurourology and Urodynamics. 30 (3): 282–283. doi:10.1002/nau.21086.
  12. Summerton, Duncan (November 2020). "Welcome from the Immediate Past-President". Journal of Clinical Urology. 13 (1_suppl): 2. doi:10.1177/2051415820963007. ISSN 2051-4158.
  13. "History of Society Medal". www.iscos.org.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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