Examination certificate
Category
Education objects
Date
1876 - 1883
Materials
Card
Measurements
Each ertificate (min) - 200 mm (width); 185 mm (height), Each certificate (max) - 310 mm (width); 405 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670807
Summary
A collection of various examination certificates awarded to Mary (Polly) Hayes between 1876 and 1884. University of Cambridge 1876 (Religious Knowledge, English, French). College of Preceptors 1876 (six subjects). Trinity College London 1878 (Elementary Musical Knowledge). Firth College, Sheffield 1881/82 (French Advanced). Royal Academy of Music 1883 (Elements of Music). Royal Academy of Music 1883 (Pianoforte). Printed in ink with hand-written detail. Several have decorative borders. Total number of items is 6.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."