Biography
Robert Elderton joined the Royal Mint in 1964 as an apprentice engraver, spending the first year full time at Central School of Art and thereafter one day a week at London’s Sir John Cass School of Arts and Crafts until summer 1971. He remained at the Royal Mint until 2002, where he designed numerous coins and medals. He is an associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, a fellow of the Institute of Professional Goldsmiths, and a regular contributor to FIDEM exhibitions. Elderton’s Grace Darling was among the earliest medals issue by BAMS. Nearly thirty years later, his second BAMS medal honours the poet and architectural campaigner John Betjeman.