Chancellor's Gold Medal

Chancellor's Gold Medal

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. The winner would have the honour of reading his 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.

Partial list of recipients

Notes

  1. ^ 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. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AiQwHaiKEh4C&pg=PA376&lpg=PA376&dq=chancellors+gold+medal+cambridge&source=web&ots=HaIaGelsLf&sig=seDH5zWPA8S9qDVZrw7ZZiXiRjo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result. 
  2. ^ ADC Theatre Archives, Cambridge

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