© 2011 - Mike MacKenzie, Largs and
District Historical Society , Kirkgate House, Manse Court, LARGS,
Ayrshire, KA30 8AW, United Kingdom. The information is provided for
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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.
Prize recipients :-
- 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
- 2010 -- Professor Sir John Arbuthnott -- renowned academic in
the field of Microbiology
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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