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Glasgow's St. Mungo Prize

In 1936 an anonymous donor gave £13,500 for a Trust Fund to endow a prize - a gold medal and £1000 - to be awarded every three years to the person deemed to have done most in the previous three years by way of action, instruction or suggestion :-

• to beautify the city,
• to increase the well-being of the citizens,
• to purify the atmosphere,
• to foster better relations between all classes,
• to extend cultural and educational development, and
• to bring Glasgow into honourable prominence.

When he died on 20th August 1949, aged 77, the anonymous donor could be named as Mr. Alexander Paterson Somerville, a Glasgow business-man and a water-colour artist of some distinction.

• 1939 -- Sir Patrick J. Dollan -- Lord Provost
• 1943 -- Dr. Tom Honeyman -- Director, Museums & Art Galleries
• 1946 -- Sir William Burrell -- art collector
• 1949 -- Sir Steven (later Lord) Bilsland --
  . . . . . . . Chairman, Scottish Council for Development & Industry
• 1952 -- Dr. Violet Craig Roberton -- Bailie, Magistrate, Deputy Chairman of the Corporation
• 1955 -- Mrs. Evelyn Mackenzie Anderson -- Glasgow Tree Lovers’ Society
• 1958 -- John D. Kelly -- former City Treasurer, Convenor of the Art Galleries Committee,
  . . . . . . . President of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts
• 1961 -- Rev. Dr. Nevile Davidson -- Minister of Glasgow Cathedral
• 1964 -- Rev. Tom Allan -- Minister of St. George’s Tron Church
• 1967 -- Professor William Ferguson Anderson --
  . . . . . . . Chair of Geriatric Medicine, Glasgow University
• 1970 -- (Sir) Alexander Gibson -- Chief Conductor, Scottish National Orchestra
• 1973 -- Arthur J. Oldham -- Director, Parks Department
• 1976 -- Sir Samuel Curran -- Atomic Scientist, Principal of Strathclyde University
• 1979 -- Mrs. Dorothy Henderson -- Chairperson, Woodlands Residents’ Association
• 1982 -- Fred Paton -- Director, Glasgow’s Old People’s Welfare Committee
• 1985 -- Professor Gavin Arneil --
  . . . . . . . Glasgow University & The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill
• 1988 -- Jack House -- (‘Mr. Glasgow’), Glasgow historian, broadcaster, author, raconteur
• 1991 -- Mrs. Susan Baird -- Lord Provost
• 1994 -- Giles Havergal -- Director, Citizens’ Theatre
• 1997 -- George Parsonage -- Glasgow Humane Society
• 2002 -- Mrs. Sheila Halley -- General Manager, the Dixon Community, which
  . . . . . . . provides daycare, residential and outreach services for the elderly in Govanhill
• 2004 -- Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden -- arts patron
• 2007 -- Willie Haughey -- Glasgow businessman and philanthropist

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  For further details, or in the case of any enquiries, please contact Mike MacKenzie at the address given at the top of this page [ or by e-mail to Mike MacKenzie ].

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