The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate Prize. It was first presented by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh during his time as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In the mid 19th century, the topic for each year was sent out at the end of Michaelmas Term, with a requirement that entries were submitted by 31 March of the following year. A second requirement is and has been that poems must be submitted anonymously. Over the last few decades the system of set topics has been abandoned.
The winner of the medal would have the honour of reading his or her poem aloud in the Senate House on Commencement Day. The prize was first awarded in 1813 to George Waddington of Trinity College. The early lists of winners shows a considerable overlap with the list of Senior Wranglers.
This literary prize continues to exist today under the name of Chancellor's Medal for an English Poem. Intermittently it was also known as the Chancellor's Medal for (an) English Verse.
The prize takes the shape of not so much a medal, but of a rather large coin or medallion. In modern times the medallion is decked with a representation of the Queen on the front and a poetical figure on the back.
The prize has not been bestowed upon a young poet in every academic year since 1813. Where available information has been provided as to which college of the university the particular student belonged.
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References
A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge(PDF). Cambridge: University of Cambridge (printed by W. Metcalfe). 1859. Retrieved 1 October 2008.
Cambridge University Janus Records
A list of its recipients since 1922 may be found in Graham Chainey, A Literary History of Cambridge (1986), pp. 295ff.
April 13, 2023
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The Chancellor s Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry paralleling Oxford University s Newdigate Prize It was first presented by Prince William Frederick Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh during his time as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge In the mid 19th century the topic for each year was sent out at the end of Michaelmas Term with a requirement that entries were submitted by 31 March of the following year A second requirement is and has been that poems must be submitted anonymously Over the last few decades the system of set topics has been abandoned The winner of the medal would have the honour of reading his or her poem aloud in the Senate House on Commencement Day The prize was first awarded in 1813 to George Waddington of Trinity College The early lists of winners shows a considerable overlap with the list of Senior Wranglers This literary prize continues to exist today under the name of Chancellor s Medal for an English Poem Intermittently it was also known as the Chancellor s Medal for an English Verse The prize takes the shape of not so much a medal but of a rather large coin or medallion In modern times the medallion is decked with a representation of the Queen on the front and a poetical figure on the back The prize has not been bestowed upon a young poet in every academic year since 1813 Where available information has been provided as to which college of the university the particular student belonged Partial list of recipients Edit1813 George Waddington Trinity Columbus 1814 William Whewell Trinity Boadicea 1815 Edward Smirke St John s Wallace 1816 Hamilton Sydney Beresford Mahomet 1817 Chauncy Hare Townshend Trinity Hall Jerusalem 1818 Charles Edward Long Trinity Imperial and Papal Rome 1819 Thomas Babington Macaulay 1st Baron Macaulay Trinity Pompeii 1821 Thomas Babington Macaulay 1st Baron Macaulay Trinity Evening 1823 Winthrop Mackworth Praed Trinity Australasia 1824 Winthrop Mackworth Praed Trinity Athens 1825 Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton Trinity Sculpture 1826 Joseph Sumner Brockhurst St Johns 1 later headmaster of Camberwell Collegiate School 2 1827 Christopher Wordsworth Trinity The Druids 1828 Christopher Wordsworth Trinity Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Boneparte 1829 Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson Trinity Timbuctoo 1831 George Stovin Venables Jesus Attempts to find a North West Passage 1842 Henry James Sumner Maine Pembroke Birth of the Prince of Wales 1844 Edward Henry Bickersteth Trinity The Tower of London 1845 Edward Henry Bickersteth Trinity Caubul 1846 Edward Henry Bickersteth Trinity Caesar s Invasion of Britain 1852 Frederic William Farrar Trinity The Arctic Regions 1873 Arthur Woollgar Verrall Trinity 1899 Arthur Cecil Pigou King s 3 1900 Frank Sidgwick Trinity Khartoum 4 5 1901 George Dean Raffles Tucker Magdalene 1902 Giles Lytton Strachey Trinity Ely 6 1903 Not awarded 1904 Robert Quirk Kings 1905 Arthur Conway Osborne Morgan Trinity 1906 Charles Mendell Kohan Trinity 1907 Donald Welldon Corrie King s 1908 George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler Trinity 1909 Dennis Holme Robertson Trinity 1910 Dennis Holme Robertson Trinity 1911 Dennis Holme Robertson Trinity 1912 Not awarded 1913 Not awarded 1914 Donald Frederick Goold Johnson Emmanuel 1915 Philip Carrington Selwyn 1916 Not awarded 1917 Harold Obbard Lee Jesus 1918 Hugh l Anson Fausset Corpus 1919 Frederick Francis Thomas Pinto Non Collegiate 1920 Colin Hercules Mackenzie King s 1921 Cecil Roy Leonard Falcy Queens Death of Napoleon 7 1922 Montague Maurice Simmons Queens 1923 David William Allun Llewellyn St John s St Francis of Assiss 1924 Edward Falaise Upward Corpus Christi Buddha 1925 Henry Hugh Thomas Sidney Sussex Stonehenge 1926 Alan Trevor Oldham Emmanuel Gallipoli 1927 Frederik John Norton also Frederik Norton Pembroke Orestes 1928 Kenneth Harold Ellis Trinity Proserpine 1929 Elsie Elizabeth Phare later Elsie Duncan Jones Newnham The Bridge first female recipient 8 9 1931 Robert Gittings also Robert William Victor Gittings Jesus The Roman Road 1934 Frederick William Clayton King s The English Countryside 10 1935 Olive Fraser Girton The Vikings F 11 1936 Terence Tiller also Terence Rogers Tiller Jesus Egypt 1937 Christopher Thomas Gandy King s The Thames 1938 John Darrel Boyd King s A Great Man 1939 Reginald Arthur Burrows St Catherine s Fire 1942 Irene Josephine Blanche Snatt Girton A Londoner F 12 1948 George James Moor Downing The Year s to Come 1949 Alan John Maurice Bird Selwyn Speed 1953 Alasdair Eoin Aston Pembroke Gloriana Rediviva 13 14 1964 Howard Brenton 15 St Catherine s 1966 William Paul Huw Merchant Emmanuel 1967 Clive Wilmer King s 1969 Alexander John Howard Martin Jesus 1970 Elliot Alexander Grant Christ s 1974 John Wilkinson also John Lawton Wilkinson Jesus 1976 Charles Ellis Leftwich St John s Cadenzas 1977 David Colles Lloyd King s Ecologies 1978 Aidan Semmens Trinity 1979 Jacqueline Osherow Trinity F 16 1980 Michael Thomas Hutchinson Trinity 1982 Alice Goodman also Alice Abigail Goodman Girton Four Poems F 1984 James William Noggle Fitzwilliam A painting of the garden 1985 Jean Hanff Korelitz Clare The Sounds from the Stairs and other poems F 1988 Joanne Marion Wiess St Edmund s Untitled Poem F 1989 Simon James Alderson Trinity Memory 17 1992 Nicoletta Fotinos also N I Fotinos Churchill Pergamon first non native speaker recipient F 1994 Keith Malcolm Sands Jesus Axis 1997 Keston Sutherland also Keston M Sutherland Hate s clitoris 2006 Benjamin Morris Sonata in orangeNotes Edit British Poetry of the Romantic Period Catalog A to Dash Stanford University a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help Chancellor s Gold Medal The Camberwell Collegiate Magazine 10 73 1840 Pigou sold his medal after World War I in order to provide famine relief for the Georgians Perlman Mark McCann Charles Robert 1998 The Pillars of Economic Understanding Ideas and Traditions University of Michigan Press ISBN 978 0 472 10907 4 University intelligence The Times No 36088 London 13 March 1900 p 7 Who was Frank Sidgwick Thanks to Catherine Cooke curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collection at London s Marylebone Library and The Book of Life BSI we are able to provide the following obituary from The Times of London August 15 1939 No doubt there is much more the obituary did not provide One suggestive item is the Double Crown Club a dining club of printers publishers book designers and illustrators in London co founded in 1924 by among others Frank Sidgwick and S C Roberts Another early member at the time was Stanley Morison the printer with whom a chance meeting in New York in 1926 revived Christopher Morley s fervor for the Sherlock Holmes stories More about the Double Crown Club connection Today the firm of Sidgwick and Jackson survives as part of Pan Macmillan with its imprint known for Commercial and popular non fiction with a strong personality specializing in high profile biography and the history of popular culture Features include the acclaimed Sidgwick Military list supported by an association with the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum Bsiarchivalhistory org Retrieved 3 October 2017 University intelligence The Times No 36711 London 10 March 1902 p 11 Death of Napoleon C R L Falcy Crl falcy com Retrieved 3 October 2017 Village girl forged her own brilliant career smh com au Smh com au Retrieved 3 October 2017 Explore Kindred Britain Stanford edu Retrieved 3 October 2017 Obituary Professor F W Clayton Independent co uk 24 December 1999 Retrieved 3 October 2017 Olive Fraser Poetry Scottish Poetry Library Scottishpoetrylibrary org uk Retrieved 3 October 2017 Childhood at Brighton and wartime verses Worldcat org Retrieved 3 October 2017 Aston Philomena 26 September 2010 Alasdair Aston obituary Theguardian com Retrieved 3 October 2017 Obituary Alasdair Aston poet Scotsman com Retrieved 3 October 2017 ADC Theatre Archives Cambridge Jacqueline Osherow Poetry Foundation 2 October 2017 Retrieved 3 October 2017 Dr Simon Alderson Professoriate and Academic related Staff Staff School of English Faculty of Arts HKU English hku hk Retrieved 3 October 2017 References EditA Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor s Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge PDF Cambridge University of Cambridge printed by W Metcalfe 1859 Retrieved 1 October 2008 Cambridge University Janus Records A list of its recipients since 1922 may be found in Graham Chainey A Literary History of Cambridge 1986 pp 295ff Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chancellor 27s Gold Medal amp oldid 1114920324, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
