Lot 3378

Description

Girton College, Dux medal, 1911, AII Division, 1911, hand engraved in gold (9ct, 5.3g, 27mm), no maker, ring top suspension, inscribed on obverse 'D.V.Cowie'. Fine.

Now Columba College, Dunedin, created from two earlier Dunedin girls' schools, Girton College and Braemar House. Girton College had been founded in 1886 by the first woman graduate of the University of Otago, Caroline Freeman, who later sold it to Frances Ross in 1891. Ross subsequently purchased Braemar House, combined it with Girton College, and became the first Head Mistress of the newly created Columba College.