Lothian Prize Essay
The Marquis of Lothian's Historical Prize Essay was a prize for historical studies at the University of Oxford. The prize was established in 1870, when William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquis of Lothian bequeathed a fund to encourage the study of Modern History at Oxford.
In 1939, the Prize was £40 or books of the same value. It was defined as “an essay on some aspect of foreign history, secular or ecclesiastical, in the period between the dethronement of Romulus Augustulus and the death of Frederick the Great.” The prize was open to members of the University who had not exceeded twenty-one terms from Matriculation.[1]
The Prize was eventually replaced by the Marquis of Lothian's Studentship in Modern History.[2]
Published Prize Essays
- 1873 Sir Thomas Raleigh, ‘’The University of Paris from its Foundation to the Council of Constance’’ (Oxford, 1873).
- 1874 Arthur Lionel Smith, ‘’Erasmus’’ (Oxford: Shrimpton, 1874).
- 1877 C.A.V. Conybeare, ‘’The Place of Iceland in the History of European Institutions (Oxford: J. Parker, 1877.
- 1880 Arthur Henry Hardinge, ‘’Queen Christina of Sweden’’ (Oxford:Shrimpton, 1880).
- 1881 Edward H.R. Tatham, ‘’John Sobieski’’ (Oxford: Shrimpton, 1881).
- 1882 William James Ashley, ‘’James and Philip van Artevelde’’ (London: Macmillan, 1883).
- 1883 George Nathaniel Curzon, ‘’Justinian, (Oxford, 1883).
- 1884 Charles Oman, ‘’The art of War in the Middle Ages, AD 378-1515’’ (Oxford: Blackwells: London: T. Fisher. Unwin, 1885).
- 1885 Edward Cannan, ‘’The Duke of Saint Simon’’ (Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1885).
- 1898 C.T. Atkinson, ‘’Michel de l’Hospital’’ (London: Longman, Green, 1900).
- 1903 William Nassau Weech, ‘’Urban VIII’’ (London: 1905).
References
- ‘’Handbook to the University of Oxford’’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), p.344.
- Statutes of the University of Oxford, article 32
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