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5 unusual facts about Ian Rank-Broadley


Australian twenty-cent coin

Three different obverses have so far been used; 1966 to 1984 the head of Queen Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin; between 1985 and 1998 the head by Raphael Maklouf; and since 1999 the head by Ian Rank-Broadley.

Australian two-dollar coin

From 1988 to 1998 the portrait of her was by ( Raphael Maklouf ) before being replaced in the following year by one sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley.

Ian Rank-Broadley

His works are on display throughout Europe and the US, at such places as the British Museum, London's National Portrait Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and several others.

A member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (Associate 1989, Fellow 1994), Rank-Broadley was granted Freedom of the City of London in 1996.

New Zealand Defence Meritorious Service Medal

The obverse of the medal bears the effigy of the Sovereign, currently the effigy designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, surrounded by the Royal Styles and Titles for New Zealand.


Naja ashei

Thus, N. ashei was only classified as a distinct species in 2007, by Wolfgang Wüster (Bangor University Wales) and Donald Broadley (Biodiversity Foundation for Africa).

New Zealand fifty-cent coin

In 2003 six coins with the Rank-Broadley portrait were released, with images of characters from The Lord of the Rings.

William Harrison-Broadley

In 1865 he assumed by royal license the additional surname of Broadley on inheriting Welton House from the Broadley family.

He was patron of the livings of Melton-cum-Welton, Sutton St James and Bempton Yorkshire.


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