Timeline of Prizes

The following table sets out the years in which school prizes were first awarded at Speech Day (now called 'Prize Giving'). An asterisk (*) denotes a prize that is no longer awarded.

For some prizes there is not complete certainty over when they were first presented, and in those cases a broader time window has been approximated, based on the information available.

Year first awarded	Name of Prize
1875	Parry Gold Medal
1910s	Frank Harrison Hill Exhibition
1933	Ogle Divinity Prize
1941	Art Prize
1942	American Life or History Essay Prize
1944	Dennis Commonwealth Prize
1950	Hill Classics Prize* Scorer Local Knowledge
1951	OBA Cricket Prize
1955	Fourth Centenary Memorial Prize*
1956	Arthur Hill Memorial Prize
1962	Arthur Watson Grocock Memorial Prize* Dickson Science Prize
1965	Harmstone Reading Prize* Harmstone Natural History Prize*
1970	Holderness Award* Tynwald Cup
1972	Parry Prize*
Early 1970s	Lockwood Memorial Prize Cheer's Football Prize Morley Victor Ludorum
Late 1970s / early 1980s	Gratton Mathematics Prize Neal Robinson Science Award Parkinson Modern Languages Prize R Goodman Trophy
1983	C L Farrow Bequest
Late 1980s	Cawthorne-Spikings English Exhibition Bernard Moulder Memorial Prize George Bagley Prize
1990s	Ashberry Prize Birkett Prize for Modern Languages* Head of School Prize Deputy Head of School Prize
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
2022	Durham Castle Scholarship (2013) renamed to Cross Scholarship McMahon Scholarship

See Also

• Timeline of BGS history