Research Study Careers Search LSTM HomeHistoryMary Kingsley Medal Mary Kingsley Medal Mary Kingsley The medal is named after Mary Kingsley, a self-educated writer and traveller. Kingsley set sail from Liverpool for West Africa on a boat of the Elder Dempster Line of shipping magnate Sir Alfred Jones whose annual £350 donation was instrumental in founding LSTM. Her resulting book ‘Travels in West Africa’, published in 1897, became an instant bestseller. Through her experiences she acquired a detailed knowledge of African society and politics and was regarded as an expert in government circles. She was a personal friend of LSTM founders Sir Alfred Lewis Jones and John Holt, with the latter acknowledging her role in ‘getting us to think on the right lines and to work for the good of the African peoples.’ Kingsley demanded a wider understanding of African social and legal systems and how they should be reflected in colonial commerce. It lead to the formation of the Fair Commerce Party, The Congo Reform Association and the African Society. It would be the ethos of equity, particularly in relation to improving health, that would continue to drive the work of LSTM. Mary Kingsley died in South Africa from suspected typhoid whilst tending to Boer Prisoners of War, aged just 38. It is assumed that her legacy inspired the figure representing ‘Research’ as part of the Alfred Jones Memorial on Liverpool’s waterfront. In honour of her achievements and passion, the Mary Kingsley Medal was instituted by John Holt in 1903 and was issued for the first time in 1905 to Sir Patrick Manson, by many seen as the founding father of the field of tropical medicine. Recipients of the Mary Kingsley Medal 1905 HRH The Princess Christian (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Honorary) One of the founding members of the Red Cross & President of the Royal British Nurses Association. David Bruce (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Scottish Pathologist/Microbiologist who identified the cause of sleeping sickness Robert Koch (link is external) (opens in a new tab) German Physician, discovered the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis which causes Tuberculosis. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (link is external) (opens in a new tab) French Physician, eminent work on protozoan diseases. Sir Patrick Manson (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Scottish Physician, considered the founder of tropical medicine field and made important discoveries in parasitology. 1907 Basile Danilewsky Russian Physiologist Carlos Juan Finlay (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Cuban Physician and Scientist, recognised as a pioneer in yellow fever research Camillo Golgi (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Italian Physician, structures of the nervous system William Crawford Gorgas (link is external) (opens in a new tab) US Physician, worked on abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling mosquitoes and Chief Sanitary Officer on the Panama Canal Project. Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Russian Bacteriologist working in India, he was the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. He tested the vaccines on himself. Theobold Smith (link is external) (opens in a new tab) American Epidemiologist 1908 Joseph Chamberlain (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Honorary) UK Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph, Baron Lister (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Honorary) English Surgeon who promoted use of sterile operating equipment 1910 Prince Auguste Louis Alberic D’Aranberg (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Honorary) French politician who focused on African colonial issues William Adamson (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Honorary) Scottish Politician Raphael Anatole Emile Blanchard Anton Breinl (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Medical Scientist whose pioneering work led to discoveries of drugs to cure sleeping sickness and he was the First Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine. William Carter (Honorary) Angelo Celli (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Italian Physician, working on Malaria and known for his achievements as a Hygienist Charles Wilberforce Daniels Pioneer in the early work on Tropical Medicine Alfred Henry Keogh (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Surgeon Major of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) who encouraged research into Typhoid Walter Gawen King William MacGregor (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Scottish Physician who worked throughout the tropics and assisted in the inauguration of the University of Queensland, 1909. Bernard Albrecht Eduard Nocht (link is external) (opens in a new tab) German naval physician who founded the Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany George Henry Falkiner Nuttall (link is external) (opens in a new tab) American/British Bacteriologist Mrs John Pinnock (Honorary) Leonard Rogers (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Pioneering the treatment of cholera John Lancelot Todd Walter Wyman (link is external) (opens in a new tab) President of the American Public Health Association 1913 Frederic Vincent Theobald Mosquito specialist 1917 Griffith Evans 1919 John William Scott Macfie (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British entomologist, parasitologist and protozoologist The Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Honorary) 1920 Ernest Edward Austen (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British Entomologist Arthur William Garrard Bagshawe Andrew Balfour Alphonse Louis Guillaume Broden Albert John Chalmers (Posthumous) Giovanni Battista Grassi (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Italian Zoologist, known for work demonstrating mosquitoes carry malaria plasmodium in their digestive tract. Robert Thomson Leiper Scottish Parasitologist Felix Etienne Pierre Mesnil French Zoologist Charles Wardell Stiles (link is external) (opens in a new tab) American Parasitologist, remembered for his work in parasitic diseases Temistocle Zammit Rector of the University of Malta 1929 George Carmichael Low (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Co-founder of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British Entomologist with extensive knowledge of insect taxonomy Robert Newstead Ambrose Thomas Stanton Discovered that beriberi, a debilitating and fatal disease was caused by a dietary deficiency John William Watson Stephens Charles Morley Wenyon 1934 Henry Beeuwkes George Seaton Buchanan Annie Rose Caton (Honorary) Samuel Rickard Christophers (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British Protozoologist Mrs John Middlemass Hunt (Honorary) Malcolm Watson 1938 Marshall Albert Barber Emile Brumpt (link is external) (opens in a new tab) French Parasitologist, credited with the discovery of the avian malarial parasite Lady Danson (Honorary) Walter Scott Patton Dutton Memorial Chair of Entomology Werner Schulemann 1949 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 50th Jubilee Year Donald Breadalbane Blacklock 1st Professor of Tropical Hygiene at LSTM (1934) George Brocklehurst (Honorary) Patrick Alfred Buxton (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Neil Hamilton Farley (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Australian Physician, instrumental in saving thousands of Allied Forces lives from Malaria during the two World Wars. Robert Longstaff Holt (Honorary, Posthumous) William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (Honorary, Posthumous) Nicolaas Hendrik Swellengrebel Alexander Francis Mahaffy Philip Henry Manson-Hur Edward Mellanby (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Discovered Vitamin D and its role in preventing rickets. Jerome Rodhain Paul Farr Russell (link is external) (opens in a new tab) American specialist in malaria Henry Edward Shortt (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British expert on Tropical Diseases John Alexander Sinton V.C. (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British doctor and malaria specialist William Hay Taliaferro Warrington Yorke (link is external) (opens in a new tab) (Posthumous) Expert Parasitologist and first Walter Myers Chair of Parasitology 1958 Rupert Montgomery Gordon Holder of the Dutton and Walter Myers Chair of Entomology and Parasitology – gave 39 years service to the LSTM 1964 L’Institute de Medecine Tropicale Prince Leopold (link is external) (opens in a new tab) , Antwerp, Belgium 1966 Marcoline Gomes Candau (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Director General of WHO, opened new wing of LSTM, 10 Feb 1966 1969 John Raymond Danson 1972 Philip John Denton Toosey (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Merchant Banker and Army Officer, most famous as the senior officer in charge of building the Bridge on the River Kwai 1973 Percy Cyril Claude Garnham (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Protozoologist Pieter-Gustaaf Janssens Brian Gilmore Maegraith (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Pioneer in Tropical Medicine and longest serving Dean of LSTM (29 years). Hans Vogel (link is external) (opens in a new tab) German scientist renowned for his work on Helminthology 1976 George James Cole, Baron Cole of Blackfriars 1983 Peter Orchard Williams British Doctor 1987 Adetokunbo O. Lucas (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Nigerian Doctor and former professor of International Health at the Harvard School of public health Kenneth S. Warren (link is external) (opens in a new tab) American Scientist and expert on Tropical Diseases, in particular schistosomiasis. 1994 Herbert Michael Gilles Warrington Yorke Professor of Tropical Medicine, 1972-86, awarded CMG 2005 Ian A. McGregor Ebrahim Samba (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Africa’s Regional Director of the WHO, renowned for his exceptional leadership in the management of the Onchocerciasis Control Program in Africa 1998 HRH The Princess Royal (link is external) (opens in a new tab) – Royal Patron of LSTM Mario Coluzzi Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (Honorary) 1999 Lynda Chalker (link is external) (opens in a new tab) , Baroness Chalker of Wallasey Cherubala Pathayapurayil Ramachandran (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Malaysian medical scientist, Chairman of Technical Advisory Group, Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, WHO Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Former Nigeria Health Minister and WHO consultant Sir David John Weatherall (link is external) (opens in a new tab) British Doctor and researcher in molecular genetics, clinic medicine, haematology and pathology. 2005 David Alan Warrell (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Professor of Tropical Medicine & Infectious Disease, University of Oxford. 2011 His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Minister of Health, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 2015 Kevin Marsh (link is external) (opens in a new tab) Professor in Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford 2018 David Molyneux Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow. 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