MEL.355:02-2013
Parts
Object number
MEL.355:02-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Garter
Description
Garter, Marquess Wellesley's Garter insignia
Other number
20010000008853
Description
Content (description)
Blue silk embroidered with "honi soit qui mal y pense" in gilt wire and gold thread
Production
Date
1812
History and association
Associated person
Object history note
Awarded in 1810 to Richard, Marquess Wellesley (at Eton 1771-1778)
Exhibited in 1891 at Eton as part of the 'Loan Collection of Portraits, Views and Other Objects of Interest, Connected with the History of Eton'
Catalogue printed by R. Ingalton Drake (1891)
Object no. 481, p.98
Presented to the College by Mr Alfred Montgomery, who was his Private Secretary in Ireland in his second Lord-Lieutenantship
Exhibited in 1891 at Eton as part of the 'Loan Collection of Portraits, Views and Other Objects of Interest, Connected with the History of Eton'
Catalogue printed by R. Ingalton Drake (1891)
Object no. 481, p.98
Presented to the College by Mr Alfred Montgomery, who was his Private Secretary in Ireland in his second Lord-Lieutenantship