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Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize, more commonly the Newdigate Prize, is awarded by the University of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate student. [1] It was founded in 1806 as a memorial to Sir Roger Newdigate (1719–1806). [ 2 ]
From Harrow School he went to New College, Oxford; took first-classes in classical moderations and greats; and won the Newdigate prize for poetry (1864) and the Chancellors English essay (1868). He seemed destined for distinction as a poet, his volume of Ludibria Lunae (1869) being followed in 1870 by the remarkably fine Paradise of Birds .
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (30 May 1719 – 23 November 1806) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was a collector of antiquities. He was a collector of antiquities.
Newdigate Prize for Poetry while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Olive Schreiner Prize for South African Poetry in English. South African Performing Arts Councils’ Playwright Award. Hon.D.Litt. University of Durban-Westville, now University of KwaZulu-Natal. Eastern Cape Premier’s Award for Literature. First Professor of Poetry, Rhodes University.
Born in Hampstead, Scott was the fourth son of Russell Scott III and his wife Jessie Thurburn. [1] He was educated at Highgate School, then Rugby School and New College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 1906.
In 1842 he won the Newdigate prize for a poem on Charles XII of Sweden, and took his degree in 1844. During these years the " Oxford Movement " was at its height. Shairp was stirred by John Henry Newman 's sermons, and admired the poetry of John Keble , on whose character and work he wrote an essay; but he remained faithful to his Presbyterian ...
Arnold was born at Gravesend, Kent, the second son of a Sussex magistrate, Robert Coles Arnold. He grew up at Southchurch Wick, a farm in Southchurch, Essex, and was educated at King's School, Rochester; King's College London; and University College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry on the subject of "The Feast of Belshazzar" in 1852. [2]
He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize (1938) for poetry and the King's Gold Medal for Poetry (1940). He was the first Australian to win either of these prizes, and is still the only Australian to have won the Newdigate Prize.