Swiney Prize

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; and £5,000 to the British Museum to found a lectureship in geology, the lecturer to be an M.D. of Edinburgh.[5]

• 1849 John Samuel Martin Fonblanque and John Ayrton Paris, Medical Jurisprudence, first award[6]
• 1854 Leone Levi, Commercial Law of the World.[7]
• 1859 Alfred Swaine Taylor, Medical Jurisprudence[7]
• 1864 Henry James Sumner Maine, Ancient Law
• 1869, William Augustus Guy, Principles of Forensic Medicine[7]
• 1874 Robert Joseph Phillimore, Commentaries on International Law[7][8]
• 1879 Norman Chevers, Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India[7]
• 1884 Sheldon Amos[9]
• 1889 Charles Meymott Tidy, Legal Medicine[10]
• 1894 Thomas Erskine Holland, Elements of Jurisprudence[8][11]
• 1899 John Dixon Mann[12]
• 1905 Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, History of English Law before Edward the First[8][9]
• 1909 Charles Arthur Mercier, Criminal Responsibility[13]
• 1914 John William Salmond, Jurisprudence or the Theory of the Law [8][14]
• 1919 Charles Arthur Mercier, Crime and Criminals[13]
• 1924 Paul Vinogradoff[15]
• 1929 Sydney Alfred Smith, Forensic Medicine[16]
• 1934 William Searle Holdsworth[17]
• 1939 James Couper Brash and John Glaister, Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case[1]
• 1944 Carlton Kemp Allen, Law in the Making[18]
• 1949 John Glaister, Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology[19]
• 1954 George Whitecross Paton, Textbook of Jurisprudence (2nd edition)[20]
• 1959 Keith Simpson, Forensic Medicine (3rd edition)[21]
• 1964 Julius Stone, The Province and Function of Law, and Glanville Williams Criminal Law: The General Part[22]
• 1969 Francis Edward Camps, Gradwohl's Legal Medicine (2nd edition)[23]
• 1974 Stroud Francis Charles Milsom[24]
• 1979 John Kenyon Mason, Forensic Medicine for Lawyers and his edition of The Pathology of Violent Injury[25]
• 1984 Patrick Atiyah, Promises, Morals and Law[26]
• 1989 P. D. G. Skegg, Law, Ethics and Medicine: Studies in Medical Law[27]
• 1994 John Kelly, A Short History of Western Legal Theory[28]
• 2000 Ronald Dworkin[29]
• 2004 Nicola Lacey, A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream[30][31]

• 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. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.