Timeline of Prizes

The following table sets out the years in which school prizes were first awarded. 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
1920	Inter-House Challenge Cup*, awarded separately for swimming, athletics, football and cricket House Masters' Cup*
1924	Public Spirit Prize*
1925	Beaulah Cup*
1933	Ogle Divinity Prize
mid-1930s	Greenfield Cup*
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*
1969	Lockwood Memorial Prize
1970	Holderness Award* Tynwald Cup
1972	Parry Prize* Cheer's Football Prize
1973	Morley Victor Ludorum
1977	Gratton Mathematics Prize
1980	Neal Robinson Science Award R Goodman Trophy
1981	Parkinson Modern Languages Prize
1983	C L Farrow Bequest
Late 1980s	Ashberry Prize Cawthorne-Spikings English Exhibition Bernard Moulder Memorial Prize George Bagley Prize
1990s	Birkett Prize for Modern Languages* Head of School Prize Deputy Head of School Prize Oldrids Shield Lealand Trophy Barclays Brokers Trophy Junior Trophy
2002	Medlock Scholarship
2008	FinnForest Shield and Prize Ken Thompson Award
Early 2010s	Sills and Betteridge Prize
2012	European Relations Travel Prize Principal's Prize
2013	Cross 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	McMahon Scholarship
2023	Chair's Award MFL Prize for French Prizes renamed: Lealand Trophy to Junior Football Prize Barclays Brokers Trophy to Mayhem Gym Award for Intermediate Sport Tynwald Cup to Mayhem Gym Award for Senior Services to Sport Sills and Betteridge Prize to The Blackfriars Arts Centre Prize for English Lockwood Memorial Prize to The S Sharpe Prize for Music STEM Awards to The Fold Hill Foods STEM Award FinnForest Shield and Prize to The Clarke Group Construction Trophy Dickson Science Prize to The Enderby and Hallgate Prize Art Prize to The Blackfriars Art Centre Prize for Art BGS Prize for Computing to The Phoenix IT Solutions Prize for Computing
2024	BGS prize for Psychology
2025	Senior Athletics Award Boxing Champion Award BGS 100 Award Prizes renamed: Junior Football Prize to Redmay Prize

See Also

• Speech Day
• Timeline of BGS history