In the Fifties, my father-in-law found a silver medal in his garden in the small Herefordshire village of Mansel Gamage.
The name on the medal is Master William Ireland, who attended the Proprietary, Grammar and Commercial School - which was on the Grand Parade in Brighton - and the inscription is Christmas examination prize. It is dated 1859-1861.
Does any reader have any information about this school and this person?
And how did this medal manage to get to Herefordshire in the late 1800s?
-James D Stevenson, james.davies@stevensonj50.fsnet.co.uk
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