Posted 04/23/2010 10:45 am
And you might be interested to hear that there is an Australian connection with this series of medals.
James Mudie was a bookseller, but his ambitious medals scheme did not sell as well as he expected, and it ended up costing him £10,000 - a fortune he could not repay. Bankrupt, he emigrated to Australia and became a landholder and notable figure in the Newcastle / Hunter Valley area. An advocate of harsh treatment of convicts, he found the liberal attitudes prevailing in NSW not to his liking, so he sailed back to England and published a vitriolic attack on life in the New South Wales colony. He then made the mistake of sailing back to NSW, where he should not have been surprised to find that everyone there now hated him. He left Australia for the last time in 1842.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography article on James Mudie mentions the medals as the cause of his bankruptcy.
James Mudie was a bookseller, but his ambitious medals scheme did not sell as well as he expected, and it ended up costing him £10,000 - a fortune he could not repay. Bankrupt, he emigrated to Australia and became a landholder and notable figure in the Newcastle / Hunter Valley area. An advocate of harsh treatment of convicts, he found the liberal attitudes prevailing in NSW not to his liking, so he sailed back to England and published a vitriolic attack on life in the New South Wales colony. He then made the mistake of sailing back to NSW, where he should not have been surprised to find that everyone there now hated him. He left Australia for the last time in 1842.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography article on James Mudie mentions the medals as the cause of his bankruptcy.
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