Irish Medals in Gold and Silver from the Collection of James Spencer

Dublin, Wesleyan Connexional School, a silver award medal by J.C. Parkes, seated robed female placing wreath over the head of a boy who holds an open book, globe at left, temple at right, Greek legend around, rev. wreath, named (To Master S.S. Frackelton for Exemplary Conduct, June 1850), 39mm (Grimshaw 149; Frazer p.25). Very fine or better, partly toned, very rare (£70-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Medals in Gold and Silver from the Collection of James Spencer.

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On 16 May 1844 a gathering of 'ministers and gentlemen' met in Belfast and agreed to form a Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School in Ireland ‘for the purpose of affording a thorough literary, scientific and commercial education, with a sound, religious, and moral training, in strict accordance with the principles of Wesleyan Methodism.’ The committee originally proposed a boarding and day school for boys in the vicinity of Belfast but later decided that the Wesleyan Connexional School should be established in Dublin, then the hub of Ireland's transport system and with a far greater population. The school was duly set up by a group of Methodist ministers at 79 St Stephen’s Green in 1845