BROCK

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[Printed item.] A Tribute to Dame Dorothy Brock D.B.E., M.A., Litt.D., LL.M. Head Mistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School 1918-1950.

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[Dame Madeline Dorothy Brock (1886-1969), Headmistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell, London; Rachel Pearse; Major Walter F. Pothecary of the Clothworkers' Company]
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[London: The Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell.] [The Parcener Press Ltd London SE27. 1970.]
£56.00

52pp., 4to. With an additional 6pp of plates on art paper, including frontispiece of painted portrait of Brock by Maurice Codner. Stapled. In blue wraps with 'M. Dorothy Brock | 1886-1969' in gold on front cover. In good condition, with slight wear and discoloration to wraps. Well laid out, with numerous contribution by those who knew Brock. Foreword by Rachel Pearse, the headmistress of the school at the time, and 'Appreciation' by Major Walter F. Pothecary of the Clothworkers' Company.

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Official circular in secretarial hand, with autograph signature, to Captain Brock, Assistant Quarter Master General, Brighton.

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Sir Robert Brownrigg
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Horse Guards 31st. May 1808.'
£185.00

British soldier and statesman (1759-1833); Governor of Ceylon, 1811-20; conqueror of the Kingdom of Kandy, 1815. Two pages, large octavo. In his capacity as Quarter Master General, Brownrigg informs Brock that 'the Establishment of Entrenching Tool Carts, and Tools attached to the several Regiments in Great Britain, shall cease on the 24th of June next, and that the Horses, Harness, and Carts used for carrying the Tools shall be forthwith Sold by Publick Auction.' Gives instructions for delivering over the 'Horses, Carts, and Harness'.

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