Medical Jurisprudence medal - 1884

[ridban]

Hello folks,

I just found a large bronze medal inscribed on one side Medical Jurisprudence 1884 A. MacQueen, and on the other, what looks like Jacob VI Scot Reg Edin, plus one other word which might be ACAD. The writing is flowery and hard to read.

Anyway, I'm always interested in finding out about things, and I've been on line, but can't find anything concrete.

I did find an Archibald MacQueen, 31, medical student visiting his brother in Warwickshire in the 1881 census. He's a possibility.

If anyone can come up with anything, I'd be grateful. Like, what is medical jurisprudence? Who was this A. MacQueen? Anything really. My genealogy is stuck at the moment, so I thought I'd interst myself in other things!

Linda

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Linda,

medical jurisprudence is what we know better as forensic medicine,
which has become well-known through the books of Patricia Cornwell and hundreds of other gory thrillers, where they go into medical details of ... NO ! this is a family site 

Edin is most likely Edinburgh, and acad is  academy or academic, so he was possibly awarded the medal on completing his academic studies at the University of Edinburgh - or maybe the Medical Acadamy Edinburgh.

Bob

ps.
try medical jurisprudence in a search engine, if you want more

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE [medical jurisprudence] or forensic medicine, the application of medical science to legal problems. It is typically involved in cases concerning blood relationship, mental illness, injury, or death resulting from violence.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/m/medicalj.asp

[Koromo]

Your Archibald Macqueen looks very likely!      I can't find any other medical Macqueens.

1871  RG10/3128/125/28
41 Warstone Lane, Birmingham
John McDowall, head, 30, Draper, b. Scotland
Janet McDowall, wife, 22, b. Scotland
Agness McDowall, dau, 3, b. Scotland
Jessie McDowall, dau, 1, b. Birmingham, Warwickshire
Mary S B McDowall, dau, 1mth, b. Birmingham, Warwickshire
Archibald Macqueen, boarder, unmar, 21, Draper's assist., b. Scotland
John Weir, cousin, unmar, 21, Draper's assist, b. Scotland
Eliza Dooley, serv, unmar, 16, General serv, b. Warrington, Lancashire

1881  RG11/3003/89/5
41 Warstone Lane, Birmingham                     (Interesting that it's the same address)
John Macqueen, unmar, head, 29, Draper, b. Scotland
Archibald Macqueen, brother visitor, unmar, 31, Medical student, b. Scotland
Elizabeth Neal, housekeeper, unmar, 18, Housekeeper, b. Oldham, Lancashire

1891  RG9/2128/43/3
Stafford Street, Drayton-in-Hales, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Archibald Macqueen, head, s, 41, Registd General Practioner, b. Scotland
Eliza Wareham, s, serv, 42, housekeeper dom serv, b. Birmingham
William Egerton, serv, s, 16, page dom serv, b. Stanton, Salop

FreeBMD  Sep qtr 1896, Upton, Vol 6c/450
Archibald Mcqueen
Mary Emma Rodenhurst

1901 RG13/2559/6/3
Stafford Street, Drayton-in-Hales, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Archibald Macqueen, head, 51, Doctor of medicine, b. Scotland
Mary E Macqueen, wife, 51, b. Market Drayton, Salop
Nellie Stour, serv, s, 31, Cook domestic, b. Fulham, Middesex
Harold Brown, serv, s, 17, Page domestic, b. Stockton, Salop



Edited to add bits!

[Koromo]

I think Archibald Macqueen was in South Africa for the Boer War.
In The Times, Saturday, Jul 12, 1902:

The Army in South Africa
"The following officers were discharged from hospital to duty for the week ended July 5:-
...
Civil Surgeons Douglas Hethcote, Archibald MacQueen, Edward Collet ... ..."


and then ...

The Times, Friday, Apr 29, 1938
Wills and Bequests
Gifts to Charity

Mr Archibald Macqueen, M.D. of Market Drayton, who died February 23, left estate of the gross value of £67,908, with net personalty of £67,671. He left:-

£1,500 to Market Drayton County Grammar School to found a scholarship; £1,000 conditionally to Market Drayton Cottage Hospital; £200 to Market Drayton Cottage Hospital; £100 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; £100 to the R.S.P.C.A; £100 to the N.S.P.C.C.; £200 to St Mary's Parish Church, Market Drayton; £100 to Emmanuel Church, Market Drayton; £200 to the Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry; £200 to the Royal Infirmary, Shewsbury; and £200 to the North Stafford Royal Infirmary.

Not bad for a draper's assistant!!

Cheers

[Dawn Macqueen]

Hi Linda,
I don't know if you will pick this up - but Archibald MacQueen was related to my husband.  I do not know a lot about him and was delighted to find this thread. He came from Avondale, in Lanarkshire and was the eldest of six. Archibald became Environmental Officer, in charge of Public Health matters in Market Drayton, Shropshire. He and his wife (Emma) had no children and most of their went to good causes. Two of his younger brothers became vets - Andrew (b.1860) in Glasgow and James (b.1853) in London. Their brother John (b. 1851), settled in Birmingham - as you know, having left Scotland as a travelling draper (see 1881 census in the responses) and he would later become a master tailor in Birmingham. He was my husband's grandfather. Thier sister, Mary, also moved to Birmingham when her mother died and she lived with John. The fifth brother, William, was a tree specialist who settled in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

Do you still have the medal? Would it be possible to have some photos of it?

Dawn (Macqueen)