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Auction 156 20-21 Feb 2019
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Scottish Educational Award Medals from the Collection Formed by the Late T.h. Watts
FIFE, Cupar, Madras Academy, an engraved silver award medal by D. Duncan, paschal lamb, engraved (Presented by Provost Taylor, Cupar, Fife, July 1862), rev. named (Gained by Andrew P. Hogarth after A Written & Oral Examination, Classical Department), 58mm, 66.26g. Very fine; with loop for suspension £100-£120
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Madras Academy took its name from the system of education devised by its founder, the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell (1753-1832). He saw that he could overcome a shortage of teachers by using older boys, who had been taught the lesson by the master, to then instruct groups of younger pupils
FIFE, Cupar, Madras Academy, an engraved silver award medal by D. Duncan, paschal lamb, engraved (Presented by Provost Taylor, Cupar, Fife, July 1862), rev. named (Gained by Andrew P. Hogarth after A Written & Oral Examination, Classical Department), 58mm, 66.26g. Very fine; with loop for suspension £100-£120
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Madras Academy took its name from the system of education devised by its founder, the Rev. Dr Andrew Bell (1753-1832). He saw that he could overcome a shortage of teachers by using older boys, who had been taught the lesson by the master, to then instruct groups of younger pupils