Irish Historical Medals from Various Properties
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Tramore Boarding School, a silver award medal, unsigned, youth standing on globe, holding book, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to John J. Fitzhenry for Superior Merit), 44mm. Cleaned at one time, good very fine and very rare £100-£120
John Joseph Fitzhenry (1849-1915), born Wicklow. He is recorded in the Waterford Standard of 22 December 1866 as having on three occasions obtained honours and prize medals whilst attending Tramore Boarding School, and additionally noted as intending to continue his studies at Trinity College, Dublin. The Trinity College register of former students records Fitzhenry as having been admitted on 26 June 1867 as a ‘Pensioner’ student, paying his fees on 29 June in the same year, and allocated a W. Townsend as tutor. The 1891 census records Fitzhenry as being employed as a teacher of classics and mathematics in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He is recorded in the 1911 census as a retired classical teacher, residing in Kilcoole, co. Wicklow
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Jennings), 54mm; Photographic Society of Ireland, a silver award medal, named (T.C. Evans, 1915), hallmarked Dublin 1946, 51mm [2]. About extremely fine
£100-£150 525
John Payne Jennings (1843-1926), English photographer who spent time in Ireland in the 1870s Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures, Dublin, 1872, a bronze award medal by J. Woodhouse, named (Payne
Ulster Unionist Convention, Belfast, 1892, a silver medal by Gibson, 38mm; Ulster Unionist Demonstration, 1893, a bronze medal by Gibson, 38mm (BHM 3433, 3458; E 1773) [2]. About extremely fine, first with some surface marks and scratches
£120-£150
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Glasgow Ulster Association, President’s gold and enamel badge, unsigned, arms of Glasgow, rev. named (Presented to A.L. Horner Esq K.C., M.P. (South Tyrone) as a memento as having presided at the annual re-union of the natives of Ulster in the City Hall, Glasgow, 6.10.10), hallmarked WA Birmingham 1909, 39 x 30mm, 9ct, 18.40g. Extremely fine and attractive, with ornate gold clip and suspender; in original case of issue by David Dow & Son, 68 Argyle Street, Glasgow
£240-£300
Andrew Ling Horner, KC, MP (1863-1916), b. Limavady; educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, and Queen’s University, Belfast; Bencher at the King’s Inns, Dublin and resident at Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; Unionist MP for South Tyrone, 1910-16
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Trinity College, Dublin, a silver award medal, unsigned [by W. Woodhouse], bust of Elizabeth I three-quarters right, rev. arms, HIST. ET SCIENT. POLIT., etc, named (Flora McIvor, 1916), 48mm (Went, Heritage 148). Brilliant mint state
£80-£100
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