Timeline of Prizes

The following table sets out the years in which school prizes were first awarded at Speech Day. For many prizes there is not complete certainty over the year, and as such a decade has been assumed, based on available information. An asterisk (*) denotes a prize that is no longer awarded.

Year first awarded	Name of Prize
1875	Parry Gold Medal
1930s	Scorer Local Knowledge
1940s	Dennis Commonwealth Prize
1940s	Ogle Divinity Prize
1950	Hill Classics Prize*
1956	Arthur Hill Memorial Prize
Late 1950s	Arthur Watson Grocock Memorial Prize*
Late 1950s	Parry Prize*
1960s	Dickson Science Prize
1960s	Frank Harrison Hill Exhibition
1960s	Harmstone Natural History Prize*
1960s	Harmstone Reading Prize*
Late 1960s	Lockwood Memorial Prize
Late 1960s / early 1970s	Cheer's Football Prize
Late 1960s / early 1970s	Morley Victor Ludorum
1970	Tynwald Cup
Late 1970s / early 1980s	Gratton Mathematics Prize
Late 1970s / early 1980s	Neal Robinson Science Award
Late 1970s / early 1980s	Parkinson Modern Languages Prize
1980s	Cawthorne-Spikings English Exhibition
1980s	George Bagley Prize
1983	C L Farrow Bequest
Late 1990s	Birkett Prize for Modern Languages*
2002	Medlock Scholarship
Early 2010s	Sills and Betteridge Prize
2012	European Relations Travel Prize Principal's Prize
2013	Durham Castle Scholarship Stanley Scholarship Trevor Page Sports Prize
2014	Anderson Prize for German N W Wainwright Award
2016	Jim Howes Memorial Cup
2010s	Ogden Physics Prize