GB Union Society of St. James’s Westminster Inst. 1784 silver medal. Â Named to D Weeks April 5th 1895, clasped hands image.
silver 42mm 32.98g traces of mounting on edge – I have seen several mounted with a blue ribon and broach bar
This is a late example at a time when the society was mostly a philanthropic institution.
The Society was founded on 27 August 1784 as the Union Society of St James Westminster. The original purpose of the Society is unclear but was probably mainly social. It undoubtedly undertook some philanthropic work probably associated with the parish of St James, as most members of the Society were vestrymen of that parish. When St James was amalgamated with the other civil parishes in Westminster, the Society decided to change its name. Consequently at a meeting in December 1902 it became the Union Society of the City of Westminster, under which name it continues to operate.
