British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

LONDON, Finsbury Circus, London Institution, 1807, copper by W. Wyon (3), arms of the City, lion crest above, numbers (207*, 363, 918*) engraved below, revs. robed female seated right, lamp of wisdom to right, 43mm, 29.60g, 36.96g, 43.30g (W 2671; D & W 157/435) [3]. Very fine and better £80-£100

The first medal was awarded to John Woollam (1788-1869), of Woollam, Hughes & Co, silkmen, 9 Warnford court, Throgmorton street, who was resident at Hampstead and whose family was involved in the founding of the Abbey Silk Mills, St Albans, to where he removed sometime after the 1841 Census; he is buried at St Albans Abbey.
The second medal was awarded to Henry Edward Dibbin (1809-47), wine merchant, 3 1/2 Basing lane; he married Anne Bamford, née Ormiston (1810-51) in June 1835 and they had two daughters.
The third medal was awarded to Timothy Tyrrell Jr, of Tyrrell, Paine & Layton, solicitors, Guildhall yard.