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
- John Richard Magrath, 1860 [1]
- Francis Jeune, 1863, 1st Baron St Helier [2]
- Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, 1866 [3]
- Thomas Buchanan, 1868, Liberal politician [4]
- Arthur Francis Leach, 1872
- Richard Lodge, 1875 [5]
- Charles Harding Firth, 1877, British historian
- Arthur Elam Haigh, 1878 [6]
- Holden Hutton, 1881 [7]
- William Carr, 1884, biographer
- Owen Morgan Edwards, 1886 [8]
- George Arnold Wood, 1889, English Australian historian
- John Buchan, 1897, British novelist
- Robert Rait, 1899 [9]
- George Stuart Gordon, 1905 [10]
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith, 1911, English historian
- Michael Sadleir, 1912 [11]
- Aldous Huxley, 1916, English writer
- Bruce McFarlane, 1924 [12]
- Bernard Miller, 1925, British businessman[13]
- Maurice Ashley, editor of The Listener.
- Derek Pattinson, 1951, Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England [14]
In fiction
In Max Beerbohm's satirical tragedy of undergraduate life at Oxford, Zuleika Dobson (1911), the hero Duke of Dorset,[15] 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.[16]
References
- ↑ H. A. P. Sawyer, ‘Magrath, John Richard (1839–1930)’, rev. M. C. Curthoys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ Herbert Stephen, ‘Jeune, Francis Henry, Baron St Helier (1843–1905)’, rev. Sinéad Agnew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ J.M. Rigg, ‘Langmead, Thomas Pitt Taswell- (1840–1882)’, rev. Catherine Pease-Watkin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ Gordon F. Millar, ‘Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn (1846–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ Geoffrey Best, ‘Lodge, Sir Richard (1855–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ S. J. Low, ‘Haigh, Arthur Elam (1855–1905)’, rev. Richard Smail, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Hutton, William Holden (1860–1930)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ Gareth Elwyn Jones, ‘Edwards, Sir Owen Morgan (1858–1920)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ D. M. Abbott, ‘Rait, Sir Robert Sangster (1874–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ R. H. Darwall-Smith, ‘Gordon, George Stuart (1881–1942)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ Derek Hudson, ‘Sadleir , Michael Thomas Harvey (1888–1957)’, rev. Sayoni Basu, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ G. L. Harriss, ‘McFarlane, (Kenneth) Bruce (1903–1966)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ↑ 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