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3 unusual facts about Allan Wyon


Allan Wyon

Wyon made the episcopal seals for the archbishops of Canterbury and York; the seal for the secretary of Scotland in 1889, and the Great Seal of Ireland in 1890.

The great seal of Queen Victoria of 1899 was not his, but the work of George William de Saulles.

Olive Wyon

The daughter of Allan Wyon, Chief Engraver of Seals to Queen Victoria, she had a brother, the Rev. Allan G. Wyon, the sculptor and medalist, and two sisters, one an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister.



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