Frank Harrison Hill Exhibition
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Frank Harrison Hill (1830-1910) was a BGS alumnus, and the nephew of local historian Pishey Thompson.
After leaving school, he qualified as a barrister and became a prominent journalist. He was the editor of the London-based "Daily News" from 1869 to 1886. Charles Dickens had been the newspaper's first editor, in 1845.
Through his will, Hill bequeathed £1,000 to the trustees of BGS. This was to be used to found and endow a Frank Harrison Hill Exhibition for one or more of the following subjects:
- Classics
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Natural Science
- Modern languages
The prize was originally a leaving scholarship to university. Since the 1980s it has been automatically conferred on the winner of the Parry Gold Medal.
| Year | Winner | Parry Gold Medallist in that year? |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | Douglas Merson Steel | No (he won it the previous year, in 1914) |
| ... | ||
| 1957 | Robert Sheehan | No (he won it in 1956) |
| 1958 | Edward A Hackford | No (he won it in 1957) |
| 1959 | Terry A Gibson | No |
| 1960 | Tom Grimes | No |
| 1961 | Thomas D Gledhill / D A Hines | No (Thomas Gledhill won it in 1960) |
| 1962 | Richard Cammack (1954-62) / Christopher R Holmes | No (Richard Cammack won it in 1962 and Christopher Holmes won it in 1961) |
| 1963 | Frank Cammack (assumed) / Michael H Gledhill | Yes (Michael Gledhill) |
| 1964 | Michael J Cockerill | No |
| 1965 | Ken Balkow / David M Dexter | No |
| 1966 | Philip Martin Hollins | No (Philip Hollins won it in 1965) |
| 1967 | William J Worraker | No |
| 1968 | Jack Upsall | Yes |
| 1969 | G P Blackbourn | Yes |
| 1970 | V J Goose | No |
| 1971 | Richard Gill / J H Wilford | No (Richard Gill won it in 1970) |
| 1972 | D P Baines / R J Leafe | No |
| 1973 | Not awarded | |
| 1974 | T Crick | No |
| 1975 | J Woodthorpe | No |
| 1976 | J Woodthorpe (noted as "in error") | No |
| 1977 | Robert A Cocks | No |
| 1978 | M F Fairfield / S Kempson / S F Leafe | Yes (S F Leafe) |
| 1979 | Daryl B Upsall / David P Moon | Yes (David P Moon) |
| 1980 | Michael J Godfrey | Yes |
| 1981 | J S Squires | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 1983 | Kevin J Ashton | Yes |
| 1984 | A R Dodsworth | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 1988 | R T Kilcoyne | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 1992 | J M Oliver | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 2003 | Patrick Turner | Yes |
| 2004 | Samuel Steer | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 2006 | James Watson | Yes |
| 2007 | David Walder | Yes |
| 2008 | Waleed Butt | Yes |
| 2009 | Timothy Worrall | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 2012 | Bhagya Raj | Yes |
| 2013 | Lawrence Hamshaw | Yes |
| 2014 | Alice Stacey | Yes |
| ... | ||
| 2015 | Nicholas Doddrell | Yes |
| 2016 | Mihir Rao | Yes |
| 2017 | Matthew Wearden | Yes |
| 2018 | Neelay Sant | Yes |
| 2019 | Seth Greeves | Yes |
| 2020 | ||
| 2021 | Matthew Dickens | Yes |
| 2022 | Kishore Murugesh | Yes |
| 2023 | Suwaid Sheikh | Yes |
| 2024 | Akshaj Airon | Yes |
| 2025 | Lochana Rathanayake | Yes |
External links
- Frank Harrison Hill - Wikipedia