Chancellor's Gold Medal

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The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate prize. It was first presented by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh during his time as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In the mid-19th Century, the topic for each year was sent out at the end of Michaelmas Term, with a requirement that entries were submitted by 31 March of the following year. The winner would have the honour of reading his poem aloud in the Senate House on Commencement Day. The prize was first awarded in 1813 to George Waddington of Trinity College. The early lists of winners shows a considerable overlap with the list of Senior Wranglers.

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• 1813 George Waddington Columbus
• 1814 William Whewell Boadicea
• 1815 Edward Smirke Wallace
• 1816 Hamilton Sydney Beresford Mahomet
• 1817 Chauncy Hare Townshend Jerusalem
• 1818 Charles Edward Long Imperial and Papal Rome
• 1819 Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Pompeii
• 1821 Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Evening
• 1823 Winthrop Mackworth Praed Australasia
• 1824 Winthrop Mackworth Praed Athens
• 1825 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Sculpture
• 1827 Christopher Wordsworth The Druids
• 1828 Christopher Wordsworth Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Boneparte
• 1829 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson Timbuctoo
• 1831 George Stovin Venables Attempts to find a North West Passage
• 1842 Henry James Sumner Maine Birth of the Prince of Wales
• 1844 Edward Henry Bickersteth The Tower of London
• 1845 Edward Henry Bickersteth Caubul
• 1846 Edward Henry Bickersteth Caesar's Invasion of Britain
• 1852 Frederic William Farrar The Arctic Regions
• 1873 Arthur Woollgar Verrall
• 1899 Arthur Cecil Pigou^[1]
• 1931 Robert Gittings

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• University of Cambridge (1859) (PDF). A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: W. Metcalfe. http://books.google.co.uk/books/pdf/A_Complete_Collection_of_the_English_Poe.pdf?id=Gw6GyHofIIAC&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U0C1ql6Dwby1ZNXGr1xK8t55UU3YQ. Retrieved on 2008-10-01.