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According to the Parish record on Ancestry, Alexander James PIKE married Sarah Maria Ann DANCE at WsM Holy Trinity on 6 April 1890. His father was Edmund William PIKE, a Sadler. There is a copy of a birth certificate attached to a Family Tree on Ancestry showing the birth of James Alexander (sic) PIKE on 30 April 1847 in Ilchester. The parents are recorded as Edmund William PIKE and Ann Baron PIKE (nee LOVELL).

Dave Erasmus

It was so good to find that Henry Butt was a person as years ago,  my mother told me a tale of when she first met my father.  She was in the Winter Gardens with her little sister in the early 1930's when my father approached her and started 'chatting her up'.  She asked him his name and he told her Henry (true) and when she pressed him for his surname, he supposedly looked at a plaque on the wall or bench and read Henry BUTT so told her his name was Henry Butt.  It must have worked as she married him a short while later when she was only 18.

The building, situated in the Boulevard, is still there but now converted into housing called Henry Butt House BS23 1NF. Regarding the medal,

I have now assertained (from Brian Austin who also has a medal given to one of his family) that they were presented by Henry Butt to those who contributed to the fund raising.

I thank you very much Pat for the information and the postcard image, is the hospital still standing and where was it constructed, I am guessing on the sea front. My interest in this medal is growing, who was given these medals, were they given on the grand opening of the Hospital? 

Whar an interesting find!   The Hopital was opened in 1928 by the Duke and Duchess of York (Later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (known to us all today as the Queen Mother)

Much of the funding for the hospital was raised by Henry Butt who was later the first Mayor of Weston in 1937.