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Swiney Prize

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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)

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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[5]

Lectureship in Geology

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Swiney also left £5,000 to the British Museum to found a lectureship in geology, the lecturer to be an M.D. of Edinburgh.[6] Holders have included

List of winners

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b Glancy, Reginald (1939). "Eastern Markets". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 88 (4538): 3–18. JSTOR 41386361.
  2. ^ Botting, Geoff (1998). "The Midlands Centre: The Swiney Prize 1999". RSA Journal. 146 (5486): 109. JSTOR 41380170.
  3. ^ "Swiney Prize". The British Medical Journal. 1 (1174): 1291. 1883. JSTOR 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. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Swiney, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  7. ^ "William Benjamin Carpenter". UCL BLOOMSBURY PROJECT. University College London. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  8. ^ "McNab, William Ramsay". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.005744.v1. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Original papers: The Swiney Prize-difficulties of connecting art and manufacture". The Journal of Design and Manufactures. VI. 1852.
  10. ^ a b c d e "The Swiney Prize". The British Medical Journal. 2 (1186): 589. 1883. JSTOR 25264179.
  11. ^ a b c d "The Swiney Prize". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 62 (3192): 195. 1914. JSTOR 41341424.
  12. ^ a b Royal College of Physicians of London, List of the Fellows and Members (1906) pp. 303–4; archive.org.
  13. ^ Linton, James D.; Forbes, George (1889). "Journal of the Society for Arts, Vol. 37, no. 1888". The Journal of the Society of Arts. 37 (1888): 139–160. JSTOR 41327883.
  14. ^ "Sir Thomas Erskine Holland - law and international".
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ a b "Mercier, Charles Arthur (1852 - 1919)".
  17. ^ "Salmond, Sir John William (1862–1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  18. ^ "The Swiney Gup". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 73 (3765): 216–217. 1925. JSTOR 41356862.
  19. ^ 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.)
  20. ^ Fletcher, Hanslip (1934). "London from the Pavement". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 82 (4253): 720–735. JSTOR 41360138.
  21. ^ "Swiney Prize for Work on Jurisprudence, 1944". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 92 (4658): 122. 1944. JSTOR 41361699.
  22. ^ "Award of Swiney Prize for Medical Jurisprudence". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 97 (4787): 151. 1949. JSTOR 41363770.
  23. ^ "Award of Swiney Prize". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 102 (4917): 131–132. 1954. JSTOR 41365645.
  24. ^ "The Swiney Prize Cup". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 107 (5032): 230. 1959. JSTOR 41366434.
  25. ^ "Award of the Swiney Prize for 1964". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 112 (5091): 138–139. 1964. JSTOR 41367536.
  26. ^ 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.)
  27. ^ "Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom | Squire Law Library".
  28. ^ Knight, B. (1979). "News and Notes". British Medical Journal. 1 (6159): 349–352. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.6159.349. PMC 1597717. PMID 421122.
  29. ^ "ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 230th Session 1983-4". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 132 (5337): 572–589. 1984. JSTOR 41373791.
  30. ^ "Rsa Report". RSA Journal. 137 (5393): 269–274. 1989. JSTOR 41374868.
  31. ^ Matthews, Peter; Wedd, Kate; Hilton, Kevin; Muir, Jean; Bloomfield, Anne; Hollaway, Antony; Eedle, James; Allan, David (1994). "General News". RSA Journal. 142 (5452): 15–23. JSTOR 41376533.
  32. ^ "FAS Faculty Honors and Awards Through August 2002". Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  33. ^ "Distinguished Global Fellow | NYU School of Law". www.law.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014.
  34. ^ "The Centre for Criminology :: Publications by Centre Members". www.crim.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014.

Further reading

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  • Eleanor Thompson, The Swiney Prize: 150 years of goldsmiths' work, Apollo: The international magazine of arts, ISSN 0003-6536, Nº. 395, 1995, pp. 30–37

Attribution

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