Stanhope essay prize
The Stanhope essay prize was an undergraduate history essay prize created at Balliol College, Oxford by Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope in 1855.
Notable winners include
- Arthur Francis Leach (1872)
- Charles Harding Firth (1877), British historian
- William Carr, 1884, biographer
- George Arnold Wood, 1889, English Australian historian
- John Buchan, 1897, British novelist
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith, 1911, English historian
- Aldous Huxley, English writer
- Bernard Miller, British businessman[1]
- Maurice Ashley, editor of The Listener.
- Derek Pattinson, 1951, Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England [2]
In fiction
In Max Beerbohm's satirical tragedy of undergraduate life at Oxford, Zuleika Dobson (1911), the hero Duke of Dorset,[3] was awarded, amongst others, the Stanhope:
At
Eton he had been called "Peacock", and this nick-name had followed him up to Oxford. It was not wholly apposite, however. For, whereas the peacock is a fool even among birds, the Duke had already taken (besides a particularly brilliant First in
Mods) the Stanhope, the
Newdigate, the Lothian, and the
Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse.
[4]
References
- ^ Daily Telegraph Obituary 28 February 2003
- ^ The Times Obituary 14 October 2006
- ^ Or in full, John Albert Edward Claude Orde Angus Tankerton Tanville-Tankerton, fourteenth Duke of Dorset, Marquis of Dorset, Earl of Grove, Earl of Chastermaine, Viscount Brewsby, Baron Grove, Baron Petstrap, and Baron Wolock
- ^ Beerbohm, Max, Zuleika Dobson (Part 1 out of 5) online at fullbooks.com, accessed 16 August 2008