Browne medal
The Browne medals (also known as the Sir William Browne's Medals[1]) are gold medals which since 1774 have been awarded for annual competitions in Latin and Greek poetry at Cambridge University.
Sir William Browne, who had been president of the College of Physicians, died in 1774. His will left an endowment to the university:
Sir William Browne having directed his executors to produce a die for annually striking of two medals of gold, of five guineas value each, to be sent to the vice-chancellor of Cambridge about the beginning of January, to be given by him, at the following commencement, to two undergraduates, one for the best Greek Ode in imitation of Sappho, the other for the best Latin ode in imitation of Horace, on a subject to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor; also one other gold medal, of like value, to be given by him to the undergraduate who shall produce the best Greek epigram after the model of Anthologia, and the best Latin epigram after the model of Martial.[2]
The endowment, invested as a trust fund called the Browne Fund, is still used to encourage classical study at the university.[3]
List of winners
This list is incomplete; most of this list is from [4] The winners of the prize are published in The Cambridge University Reporter.
- 1781 J. Goodall
- 1782 J. Goodall
- 1787 F. Wrangham[5]
- 1792 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Samuel Butler[6]
- 1793 J. Keate; Samuel Butler
- 1794 Samuel Butler
- 1796 W. Frere
- 1797 W. Frere
- 1800 J. B. Sumner[7]
- 1801 Robert Walpole[8]
- 1806 Thomas Smart Hughes, Latin Ode[9]
- 1806 Thomas Smart Hughes, Greek Ode[10]
- 1808 Edward Valentine Blomfield
- 1809 Edward Valentine Blomfield
- 1812 Marmaduke Lawson, Latin Ode[11]
- 1815 J. H. Fisher; G. Stainforth[12]
- 1822 Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- 1823 Winthrop Mackworth Praed
- 1824 Winthrop Mackworth Praed; Benjamin Hall Kennedy
- 1829 Charles Kennedy, Greek Ode[13]
- 1830 James Hildyard, Greek Ode[14]
- 1830 Charles Kennedy, Greek Ode[15]
- 1831 James Hildyard, Greek Ode[16]
- 1831 James Hildyard, Latin Ode[17]
- 1831 James Hildyard, Epigrams[18]
- 1832 James Hildyard, Greek Ode[19]
- 1832 James Hildyard, Latin Ode[20]
- 1833 Henry Drury, Latin Ode
- 1835 Henry Drury, Epigrams
- 1837 P. Freeman
- 1838 P. Freeman
- 1841 Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, Latin Epigram[21]
- 1841 Reginald Walpole, Greek Ode[22]
- 1841 Henry Mildred Birch, Latin Ode[23]
- 1842 H. J. S. Maine[24]
- 1842 William George Clark, Epigrams[25][26]
- 1843 H. J. S. Maine
- 1843 William George Clark, Greek Ode[27][28]
- 1844 J. G. Fussell, Epigrams[29]
- 1846 Brooke Foss Westcott, Greek Ode[30]
- 1847 Brooke Foss Westcott[31]
- 1869 Tristram Frederick Croft Huddleston[32]
- 1870 Thomas Ethelbert Page Original Latin Ode[33]
- 1871 F. H. Rawlins
- 1871 Thomas Ethelbert Page Original Latin Ode[34]
- 1871 E. B. Moser, Latin Epigram[35]
- 1872 F. H. Rawlins
- 1872 Thomas Ethelbert Page Original Latin Ode[36]
- 1871 E. B. Moser, Greek Epigram[37]
- 1873 F. H. Rawlins
- 1877 H. H. West
- 1879 J. C. Moss
- 1880 J. C. Moss
- 1881 J. C. Moss
- 1883 H. V. MacNaghten
- 1884 H. V. MacNaghten
- 1885 Walter George Headlam
- 1886 Walter George Headlam
- 1887 Walter George Headlam
- 1888 Walter George Headlam; Frederick William Thomas[38]
- 1889 E. E. Sikes
- 1891 H. M. Leman[39]
- 1893 Lionel Barnet
- 1894 L. D. Barnett
- 1896 L. D. Barnett
- 1901 Frederick William Hasluck
- 1911 J. B. P. Adams[40]
- 1912 Christopher Llewellyn Bullock; J. B. P. Adams[41]
- 1913 Christopher Llewellyn Bullock
- 1914 Christopher Llewellyn Bullock
- c.1931-33 J. M. Cook[42]
- 1932 John Enoch Powell[43]
- 1961 Colin François Lloyd Austin[44]
- 1973 J. C. McKeown
- 1974 J. C. McKeown
- 1978 Neil Hopkinson
- 1979 Neil Hopkinson
- 1983 G. Gardiner
- 1992 N. J. G. Lane
- 1995 Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng
- 1996 K. A. A. Kwarteng; M. O. McCullagh
- 1997 M. O. McCullagh
- 1998 R. A. Kennedy
- 2001 H. A. van Noorden
- 2003 J. M. Morhart
- 2005 D. J. Butterfield
- 2006 D. J. Butterfield
- 2008 T. C. A. Ford
- 2012 D. A. Fisher;[45] W. A. Winning
- 2014 W. A. Winning
- 2015 A. M. M. Hardwick[46]
References
- ↑ Sir William Browne's Medals: Notice, Cambridge University Reporter, 7 November 2008
- ↑ Gentleman's Magazine, 1774, p.44. Quoted by Brown, Laurence, A catalogue of British historical medals 1760-1960, vol.I: the accession of George III to the death of William IV, London, Seaby Publications Ltd, 1980, p21.92
- ↑ Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
- ↑ The Top Sir William Browne Medallists
- ↑ Francis Wrangham (A Cambridge Alumni Database)
- ↑ Samuel Butler (A Cambridge Alumni Database)
- ↑ A. T. Bartholomew, ed., Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the Most Part Relating to the University, Town, and County of Cambridge, Bequeathed to the University by John Willis Clark, M.A., Cambridge University Press, 2010
- ↑ John Venn, comp., Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1954
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ The Classical Journal, Vols. 12-13
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ The Church of England Magazine, Vol.11
- ↑ The Church of England Magazine, Vol.11
- ↑ The Church of England Magazine, Vol.11
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1842
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1842
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, 1843
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ A guide through the town of Shrewsbury, London: John Davies, 1845
- ↑ Westcott, Brooke Foss (A Cambridge Alumni Database)
- ↑ , Greek OdeWestcott, Brooke Foss (A Cambridge Alumni Database), Greek Ode
- ↑ Huddleston, Tristram Frederick Croft (A Cambridge Alumni Database)
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- ↑ Baldwin's auction listing
- ↑ Nottinghamshire History
- ↑ Nothing of Importance, Bernard Adams (Forgotten Books 2012)
- ↑ Nothing of Importance, Bernard Adams (Forgotten Books 2012)
- ↑ Obituary: Professor J. M. Cook. N.G.L. Hammond, The Independent, 22 October 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ↑ Christie's auction listing, 1999
- ↑ The International Who's Who 2004. London and New York: Europa Publications, 2003, p. 60.
- ↑ Murray Edwards student awarded Sir William Browne Medal
- ↑ Alexander Hardwick (2013) awarded Sir William Browne's Medal for Latin Epigram
- 'The Browne Prize Medals', Bulletin of the History of Medicine Vol. XIX, No. 4, April 1946, pp. 433–49.
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