MEL.698-2014
Parts
Object number
MEL.698-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Hat
Description
Dr Keate's hat with box
History and association
Object history note
Old stock: from Museum of Eton Life display
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. 474, p.97 (lent by the Head Master)
This hat was last worn by him as Head Master, and was thrown down by him in the Head Master's Chambers, when he met with Assistants for the last time, with the exclamation, "This will not be used again." It was picked up by Edward Coleridge and preserved.
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. 474, p.97 (lent by the Head Master)
This hat was last worn by him as Head Master, and was thrown down by him in the Head Master's Chambers, when he met with Assistants for the last time, with the exclamation, "This will not be used again." It was picked up by Edward Coleridge and preserved.