Swiney Prize

The Swiney Prize, a British award made every five years by the Royal Society of Arts with the Royal College of Physicians, was set up by the will of George Swiney, an English physician who died in 1844.

The prize came to be awarded alternately for medical jurisprudence and general jurisprudence. New cups were designed, after an initial stable period when a pattern by Daniel Maclise was reused. The first new design came in 1919, by Melvin Oliver.[1][2][3][4]

George Swiney (1793–1844)

George Swiney, a physician, was the son of William Swiney (1748–1829), Admiral of the Red. He was born on 8-Jun-1793 at St Marylebone, Middlesex, England. He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.D. in 1816. Having retired from practice, he settled in London, lived a secluded life, and acquired a reputation as an eccentric. He spent much time on his will and died at Grove Street, Camden Town, on 21 January 1844. He bequeathed £5,000 to the Society of Arts, to found a quinquennial prize for the best published essay on jurisprudence, the prize to be adjudicated jointly by the Society of Arts and the London College of Physicians; and £5,000 to the British Museum to found a lectureship in geology, the lecturer to be an M.D. of Edinburgh.[5]

List of winners

Notes

  1. 1 2 Eastern Markets, Reginald Glancy, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 88, No. 4538 (10 November 1939) , pp. 3-18, at pp. 15–6. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41359461
  2. Geoff Botting, The Midlands Centre: The Swiney Prize 1999, RSA Journal Vol. 146, No. 5486 (1998), p. 109. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41380170
  3. Swiney Prize, The British Medical Journal Vol. 1, No. 1174 (30 June 1883), p. 1291. Published by: BMJ. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25263511
  4. Geoffrey Davenport; Ian McDonald; Caroline Moss-Gibbons (2001). The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections: An Illustrated History. Royal College of Physicians. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-907383-83-3.
  5.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Swiney, George". Dictionary of National Biography 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=div&did=DLDECARTS.JOURNDESV06.I0022&isize=text
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 The Swiney Prize, The British Medical Journal Vol. 2, No. 1186 (22 September 1883), p. 589. Published by: BMJ. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25264179
  8. 1 2 3 4 The Swiney Prize, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 62, No. 3192 (23 January 1914), p. 195. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41341424
  9. 1 2 Royal College of Physicians of London, List of the Fellows and Members (1906) pp. 303–4; archive.org.
  10. The Journal of the Society of Arts Vol. 37, No. 1888 (25 January 1889), pp. 139-160, at p. 139. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41327883
  11. http://gluedideas.com/Encyclopedia-Britannica-Volume-11-Part-2-Gunnery-Hydroxylamine/Sir-Thomas-Erskine-Holland.html
  12. Willis J. Elwood; Ann Félicité Tuxford (1 January 1984). Some Manchester Doctors: A Biographical Collection to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society. Manchester University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-7190-1754-4.
  13. 1 2 http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002707b.htm
  14. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/salmond-sir-john-william-8329
  15. The Swiney Cup, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 73, No. 3765 (16 January 1925) , pp. 216-217. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41356862
  16. White, Brenda M. "Smith, Sir Sydney Alfred". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36159. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. London from the Pavement, Hanslip Fletcher. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 82, No. 4253 (25 May 1934), pp. 720-735, at p. 720. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41360138
  18. Swiney Prize for Work on Jurisprudence, 1944, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 92, No. 4658 (4 February 1944), p. 122. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41361699
  19. Award of Swiney Prize for Medical Jurisprudence, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 97, No. 4787 (28 January 1949), p. 151. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41363770
  20. Award of Swiney Prize, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 102, No. 4917 (22 January 1954) , pp. 131-132. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41365645
  21. The Swiney Prize Cup, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 107, No. 5032 (March 1959), p. 230. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41366434
  22. Award of the Swiney Prize of 1964, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 112, No. 5091 (February 1964), pp. 138-139. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41367536
  23. Watson, K. D. "Camps, Francis Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30896. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  24. http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/professor_toby_milsom.php
  25. British Medical Journal, 3 February 1979, p. 351; PDF.
  26. Annual Report of the Council 230th Session 1983-4, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 132, No. 5337 (August 1984), pp. 572-589, at p. 283. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41373791
  27. RSA Report, RSA Journal, Vol. 137, No. 5393 (April 1989), pp. 269-274, at p. 273. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41374868
  28. General News, Peter Matthews, Kate Wedd, Kevin Hilton, Jean Muir, Anne Bloomfield, Antony Hollaway, James Eedle and David Allan, RSA Journal Vol. 142, No. 5452 (August/September 1994) , pp. 15-23, at p. 22. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41376533
  29. http://as.nyu.edu/object/aboutas.honorsawards.2002
  30. http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/globalvisitors/distinguishedglobalfellows/lacey
  31. http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/publications.php?theme=criminol&what=recent&sort=Title

Further reading

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Swiney, George". Dictionary of National Biography 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, October 30, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.