Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Education, Exeter, Free School, Silver Collyns Medal, awarded 1839, by T Halliday, seal of St John's Hospital, three bluecoat boys and gateway, rev the arms of Collyns, named on edge (William Clarke Welsford), 46mm (BHM - ; Grimshaw -). Extremely fine.
The medal, instituted by Alderman Charles Collyns, was awarded annually by the Exeter Free School between 1819 and c.1865, to the pupil who composed the best piece of Latin hexameter. Collyns, an Exeter ironmonger by trade, rose to become a banker and partner in the Devonshire Bank from 1789 until its closure in 1810. He served as mayor of the city in 1802 and again in 1807. The recipient, W C Welsford, matriculated the following year, gained a BA in 1844 and MA in 1847. He took Holy Orders and was Rector of Salford, near Keynsham (1854-1879). From 1881 he lived in London and died there in 1895.
Estimate: £60-80
The medal, instituted by Alderman Charles Collyns, was awarded annually by the Exeter Free School between 1819 and c.1865, to the pupil who composed the best piece of Latin hexameter. Collyns, an Exeter ironmonger by trade, rose to become a banker and partner in the Devonshire Bank from 1789 until its closure in 1810. He served as mayor of the city in 1802 and again in 1807. The recipient, W C Welsford, matriculated the following year, gained a BA in 1844 and MA in 1847. He took Holy Orders and was Rector of Salford, near Keynsham (1854-1879). From 1881 he lived in London and died there in 1895.
Estimate: £60-80