Today, May 15 2023, the Wallace Memorial Fund awarded leading Wallace scholar Charles H. Smith the Fund's silver medal, its highest honour, for his invaluable contributions to Wallace scholarship and to the public understanding of Wallace's life and work. No other Wallace scholar has published so much Wallace-related material as he has. Not only has Charles tracked down, and in most cases transcribed, Wallace's numerous publications (see HERE) (many of which he 'rediscovered'), but he has also published many scholarly articles and books about Wallace's life and work (see references to Smith's publications HERE).
The Fund has been wanting to award Charles the silver medal for a number of years, but was hoping to do so when he next visited the UK. However, as