Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Jamaica, St George’s Agricultural and Immigration Society, 1841, a silver medal, unsigned, farm building showing former slave quarters, verdant hills beyond, to the fore a man ploughs, rev. his exy rt hon sir c. t. metcalfe, bt governor of jamaica, named (Awarded to Wm. Hosack Esqr For the Finest Spell of Working Cattle exhibited from Woodstock Estate, 1841), 61mm. Good very fine £250-300

Provenance: Bt R. Lyall 1985.

Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (1785–1846), was also acting Governor-General of India and Governor of the Province of Canada. The Honourable William Hosack (1808-89), b. Edinburgh, owned estates in Jamaica. The manor house at Woodstock has recently become a small hotel