Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Education, Great Campden House, Kensington, small silver "Third Prize" medal, awarded Christmas 1838, struck obverse with lyre, rev. engraved naming, "Presented by Miss Christin to Miss L. Parke ...", 31.5mm (cf. Grimshaw II, 65a, b), pierced, very fine; Burdett Coutts & Townhend School, attendance medal 1905 (Harry Wookey), 37mm; the South London School of Pharmacy, silver prize medal, 1902 (J. H. B. Wigginton), 52.5mm; Numismatics, Sir John Evans (1823-1908), the Numismatic Society of London, Golden Jubilee copper medal, 1887, by Pinches, bearded bust right of rev. legend within and around laurel wreath, 57.5mm (BHM 3344; Eimer 1729), last three extremely fine (4)
*ex Baldwin's vault
Campden House was built for Sir Baptist Hicks c.1610 in the Jacobean style. The estate was purchased by Stephen Pitt in 1751 (or perhaps 1735) and towards the end of the 18th century the house was converted into a girls' boarding school. In March, 1862, Campden House was almost totally destroyed by fireThe Watts Collection contained two medals from the school. Earlier medals of the 1830's show the proprietor or Master to be a Mr. Lord (Grimshaw I, p. 28). There is an engraving of the school-room at Campden House, by Charles Richardson, shows Mrs. Theed, the then headmistress sitting with her pupils and teachers.