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[5]
Lectureship in Geology
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
^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.
JSTOR41327883.
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
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[5]
Lectureship in Geology
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
^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.
JSTOR41327883.
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