Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Galway, Queen’s College (Founded 1845), President Moffett’s Medal for Composition & Oratory, a silver award, unsigned, arms, motto on scroll above, rev. named (W.J. Farley, Sch. 1895-96), 44mm. Poor metal with inherent flaws and medal has been cleaned in the past, otherwise about very fine, rare (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Medals in Gold and Silver from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Sir Thomas William Moffett (1820-1908), scholar and educationalist, foundation professor of logic and metaphysics at Queen’s College, 1849, professor of history and English literature 1863, registrar 1870-7 and president 1877-97. He was also a Berkeley gold medallist in Greek from Trinity College, Dublin (see lot 1133)