Auction Catalogue

17 December 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1157

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17 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£70

Dublin, Wesleyan Connexional School, a silver award medal by J.C. Parkes, seated robed female placing wreath over the head of a boy who holds an open book, globe at left, temple at right, Greek legend around, rev. wreath, named (To Master S.S. Frackelton for Exemplary Conduct, June 1850), 39mm (Grimshaw 149; Frazer p.25). Very fine or better, partly toned, very rare (£70-100)

On 16 May 1844 a gathering of 'ministers and gentlemen' met in Belfast and agreed to form a Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School in Ireland ‘for the purpose of affording a thorough literary, scientific and commercial education, with a sound, religious, and moral training, in strict accordance with the principles of Wesleyan Methodism.’ The committee originally proposed a boarding and day school for boys in the vicinity of Belfast but later decided that the Wesleyan Connexional School should be established in Dublin, then the hub of Ireland's transport system and with a far greater population. The school was duly set up by a group of Methodist ministers at 79 St Stephen’s Green in 1845