Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, bust-length, wearing a white dress and jewelled veil. Inscribed 'Queen Elisabeth' on the cartellino upper left.
A copy after the fan portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery, with an additional strip on the left to centre the portrait. Irene Begbie-Ellissen was the mother of Francis Lyon Gordon Ellissen (AHH 1932-1935).
Begbie-Ellissen, Irene, 1888-1982Five light with heraldic lion base, no. 47/250
Aurum JewellersWith lion sejant armorial lug handle, no. 41/2500, cased
Aurum JewellersThree-quarter length, standing, wearing a suit and gown Signed l.r.: 19HR20 and charged u.r. with the school's coat of arms
Riviere, Hugh, 1869-1956Silver shield on a wooden support. 1 small plaque. Presented by Henry Smith Esq., 1912. Awarded: 1879 - 1939. Damaged, right hand 'ear' lost.
The Alexander Clark Co LtdScreenprint in colours, signed in pencil, numbered 18 of an edition of 75.
Frost, Sir Terry, 1915-2003One copy annotated on reverse by R.S. Chalk, as follows:
'My recollections of the macabre ‘relics’ (gathered, I think, from Pereira, a fellow KS who had originally been up Ashburnham) are as follows:-
During repairs to Ashburnham House, some years before our time, there were discovered the mummified corpses of a CAT and (its prospective victim) a RAT. How they had met their simultaneous fate none could day. (Were they ‘gassed’ during the Great Fire of Ashburnham in 1731?)
This I remember being told: ‘The Cat was wearing a silver collar.’ (In the photo this appear to be a silver plate on a leather collar. Had anyone thought of it, the hall-mark on this would have given an approximate date.)
About 1923-4 I remember reading (perhaps in ‘House Notes’ in the ‘Eliza’) that “the Cat and Rat had been duly returned to Ashburnham Upper’, amid some mock ceremony. I cannot imagine these ‘relics’ were treasured there for long.'