IDENTIFIERS
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id:	254660
accession number:	CM.156-2004

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 26 October 2020
updated:	Tuesday 17 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Making Peace Hall Academy, Soyland, near Halifax, 1855, engraved silver medal, ‘making place hall academy decr. 1855’ and ‘Presented to Mastr. W. Cryer, for his Services as captain of No. 1 Division.’, circular disc in silver frame with suspension loop, 47mm.  Bought from Christopher Eimer.Making Place Academy was a progressive commercial college at Making Place Hall, Soyland,  near Halifax, Yorks., opened in January 1832 by William Dove (1807-65) for 12 pupils. The school may have been involved with the introduction of Pitman's shorthand. Mrs Dove attended to the domestic tasks at the school. At one time, there were 200 pupils – from all parts of the world – and a staff of 20. Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was an old boy of the school. After Dove's death, T. K. Holdsworth ran the school, but the establishment declined and it closed in 1880
title:	medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Under Review


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/254660





CATEGORIES
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category: medal