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Swiney Prize

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, 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]

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

• William Benjamin Carpenter from 1847 to 1852 (First holder)^[7]
• Robert Edmond Grant from 1853
• Thomas Spencer Cobbold from 1868 to 1873
• Ramsay Traquair 1883 to 1887 and 1896 to 1900
• William Ramsey McNab from 1888 to his death in 1889^[8]
• Robert Francis Scharff from 1906 to 1908

• 1849 John Samuel Martin Fonblanque and John Ayrton Paris, Medical Jurisprudence, first award^[9]
• 1854 Leone Levi, Commercial Law of the World.^[10]
• 1859 Alfred Swaine Taylor, Medical Jurisprudence^[10]
• 1864 Henry James Sumner Maine, Ancient Law
• 1869, William Augustus Guy, Principles of Forensic Medicine^[10]
• 1874 Robert Joseph Phillimore, Commentaries on International Law^[10][11]
• 1879 Norman Chevers, Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India^[10]
• 1884 Sheldon Amos^[12]
• 1889 Charles Meymott Tidy, Legal Medicine^[13]
• 1894 Thomas Erskine Holland, Elements of Jurisprudence^[11][14]
• 1899 John Dixon Mann^[15]
• 1905 Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, History of English Law before Edward the First^[11][12]
• 1909 Charles Arthur Mercier, Criminal Responsibility^[16]
• 1914 John William Salmond, Jurisprudence or the Theory of the Law ^[11][17]
• 1919 Charles Arthur Mercier, Crime and Criminals^[16]
• 1924 Paul Vinogradoff^[18]
• 1929 Sydney Alfred Smith, Forensic Medicine^[19]
• 1934 William Searle Holdsworth^[20]
• 1939 James Couper Brash and John Glaister, Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case^[1]
• 1944 Carlton Kemp Allen, Law in the Making^[21]
• 1949 John Glaister, Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology^[22]
• 1954 George Whitecross Paton, Textbook of Jurisprudence (2nd edition)^[23]
• 1959 Keith Simpson, Forensic Medicine (3rd edition)^[24]
• 1964 Julius Stone, The Province and Function of Law, and Glanville Williams Criminal Law: The General Part^[25]
• 1969 Francis Edward Camps, Gradwohl's Legal Medicine (2nd edition)^[26]
• 1974 Stroud Francis Charles Milsom^[27]
• 1979 John Kenyon Mason, Forensic Medicine for Lawyers and his edition of The Pathology of Violent Injury^[28]
• 1984 Patrick Atiyah, Promises, Morals and Law^[29]
• 1989 P. D. G. Skegg, Law, Ethics and Medicine: Studies in Medical Law^[30]
• 1994 John Kelly, A Short History of Western Legal Theory^[31]
• 2000 Ronald Dworkin^[32]
• 2004 Nicola Lacey, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream^[33][34]

• 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

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Swiney, George". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.