Coins and Historical Medals

KENT, Brompton, Mrs Harding’s Boarding School, 1791, an engraved silver Fourth Prize Medal, unsigned, legend both sides, rev. engraved P.S. [initials of the recipient], 33mm, 8.13g (Grimshaw 1985, p.4, this piece listed; cf. MG 930-2). Very fine; pierced for suspension £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts.

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From at least the 1780s there was a boarding school at Brompton House. By 1787 the proprietor was Mrs Sarah Hardinge and by 1800 it was being run by a Miss Hearne. The school survived until at least the 1880s but the House was destroyed by fire prior to the outbreak of World War I