{{Short description|British law award}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Use British English|date=May 2014}} The '''Swiney Prize''', a British award made every five years by the Royal Society of Arts with the Royal College of Physicians, was set up by the will of George Swiney, an English physician who died in 1844.
The prize came to be awarded alternately for medical jurisprudence and general jurisprudence. New cups were designed, after an initial stable period when a pattern by Daniel Maclise was reused. The first new design came in 1919, by Melvin Oliver.<ref name="RSA1939"/><ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41380170|title = The Midlands Centre: The Swiney Prize 1999|journal = RSA Journal|volume = 146|issue = 5486|pages = 109|last1 = Botting|first1 = Geoff|year = 1998}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 25263511|title = Swiney Prize|journal = The British Medical Journal|volume = 1|issue = 1174|pages = 1291|year = 1883}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Geoffrey Davenport|author2=Ian McDonald|author3=Caroline Moss-Gibbons|title=The Royal College of Physicians and Its Collections: An Illustrated History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGPZSDzOCxYC&pg=PA120|year=2001|publisher=Royal College of Physicians|isbn=978-0-907383-83-3|page=120}}</ref>
==George Swiney (1793–1844)== 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<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Swiney, George|volume=55}}</ref>
===Lectureship in Geology===
Swiney also left £5,000 to the British Museum to found a lectureship in geology, the lecturer to be an M.D. of Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Swiney, George|volume=55}}</ref> Holders have included * William Benjamin Carpenter from 1847 to 1852 (First holder)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Benjamin Carpenter |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/articles/individuals/carpenter_william_benjamin.htm |website=UCL BLOOMSBURY PROJECT |publisher=University College London |access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> * Robert Edmond Grant from 1853 * Thomas Spencer Cobbold from 1868 to 1873 * Ramsay Traquair 1883 to 1887 and 1896 to 1900 * William Ramsey McNab from 1888 to his death in 1889<ref>{{cite journal |title=McNab, William Ramsay |journal=Dictionary of Irish Biography |doi=10.3318/dib.005744.v1 |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcnab-william-ramsay-a5744 |access-date=6 March 2023|url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref> * Robert Francis Scharff from 1906 to 1908
==List of winners== *1849 John Samuel Martin Fonblanque and John Ayrton Paris, ''Medical Jurisprudence'', first award<ref>{{Cite journal | url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/DLDecArts/DLDecArts-idx?type=div&did=DLDECARTS.JOURNDESV06.I0022&isize=text |title = Original papers: The Swiney Prize-difficulties of connecting art and manufacture|journal = The Journal of Design and Manufactures|volume = VI|year = 1852}}</ref> *1854 Leone Levi, ''Commercial Law of the World.''<ref name="BMJ1883">{{Cite journal |jstor = 25264179|title = The Swiney Prize|journal = The British Medical Journal|volume = 2|issue = 1186|pages = 589|year = 1883}}</ref> *1859 Alfred Swaine Taylor, ''Medical Jurisprudence''<ref name="BMJ1883" /> *1864 Henry James Sumner Maine, ''Ancient Law'' *1869, William Augustus Guy, ''Principles of Forensic Medicine''<ref name="BMJ1883" /> *1874 Robert Joseph Phillimore, ''Commentaries on International Law''<ref name="BMJ1883" /><ref name="RSA1914" /> *1879 Norman Chevers, ''Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India''<ref name="BMJ1883" /> *1884 Sheldon Amos<ref name="RCPList">Royal College of Physicians of London, ''List of the Fellows and Members'' (1906) pp. 303–4; [https://archive.org/stream/listoffellowsmem1906roya#page/302/mode/2up archive.org.]</ref> *1889 Charles Meymott Tidy, ''Legal Medicine''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41327883|title = Journal of the Society for Arts, Vol. 37, no. 1888|journal = The Journal of the Society of Arts|volume = 37|issue = 1888|pages = 139–160|last1 = Linton|first1 = James D.|last2 = Forbes|first2 = George|year = 1889}}</ref> *1894 Thomas Erskine Holland, ''Elements of Jurisprudence''<ref name="RSA1914" /><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://gluedideas.com/Encyclopedia-Britannica-Volume-11-Part-2-Gunnery-Hydroxylamine/Sir-Thomas-Erskine-Holland.html | title=Sir Thomas Erskine Holland - law and international}}</ref> *1899 John Dixon Mann<ref>{{cite book|author1=Willis J. Elwood|author2=Ann Félicité Tuxford|title=Some Manchester Doctors: A Biographical Collection to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUG8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA203|date=1 January 1984|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-1754-4|page=203}}</ref> *1905 Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, ''History of English Law before Edward the First''<ref name="RSA1914" /><ref name="RCPList"/> *1909 Charles Arthur Mercier, ''Criminal Responsibility''<ref name="Mercier">{{Cite web | url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002707b.htm | title=Mercier, Charles Arthur (1852 - 1919)}}</ref> *1914 John William Salmond, ''Jurisprudence or the Theory of the Law ''<ref name="RSA1914">{{Cite journal |jstor = 41341424|title = The Swiney Prize|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 62|issue = 3192|pages = 195|year = 1914}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/salmond-sir-john-william-8329 | title=Australian Dictionary of Biography| chapter=Salmond, Sir John William (1862–1924)| publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}</ref> *1919 Charles Arthur Mercier, ''Crime and Criminals''<ref name="Mercier"/> *1924 Paul Vinogradoff<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41356862|title = The Swiney Gup|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 73|issue = 3765|pages = 216–217|year = 1925}}</ref> *1929 Sydney Alfred Smith, ''Forensic Medicine''<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=36159|title=Smith, Sir Sydney Alfred|first=Brenda M.|last=White}}</ref> *1934 William Searle Holdsworth<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41360138|title = London from the Pavement|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 82|issue = 4253|pages = 720–735|last1 = Fletcher|first1 = Hanslip|year = 1934}}</ref> *1939 James Couper Brash and John Glaister, ''Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case''<ref name="RSA1939">{{Cite journal |jstor = 41359461|title = Eastern Markets|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 88|issue = 4538|pages = 3–18|last1 = Glancy|first1 = Reginald|year = 1939}}</ref> *1944 Carlton Kemp Allen, ''Law in the Making''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41361699|title = Swiney Prize for Work on Jurisprudence, 1944|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 92|issue = 4658|pages = 122|year = 1944}}</ref> *1949 John Glaister, ''Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41363770|title = Award of Swiney Prize for Medical Jurisprudence|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 97|issue = 4787|pages = 151|year = 1949}}</ref> *1954 George Whitecross Paton, ''Textbook of Jurisprudence'' (2nd edition)<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41365645|title = Award of Swiney Prize|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 102|issue = 4917|pages = 131–132|year = 1954}}</ref> *1959 Keith Simpson, ''Forensic Medicine'' (3rd edition)<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41366434|title = The Swiney Prize Cup|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 107|issue = 5032|pages = 230|year = 1959}}</ref> *1964 Julius Stone, ''The Province and Function of Law'', and Glanville Williams ''Criminal Law: The General Part''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41367536|title = Award of the Swiney Prize for 1964|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 112|issue = 5091|pages = 138–139|year = 1964}}</ref> *1969 Francis Edward Camps, ''Gradwohl's Legal Medicine'' (2nd edition)<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=30896|title=Camps, Francis Edward|first=K. D.|last=Watson}}</ref> *1974 Stroud Francis Charles Milsom<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/professor_toby_milsom.php | title=Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom | Squire Law Library}}</ref> *1979 John Kenyon Mason, ''Forensic Medicine for Lawyers'' and his edition of ''The Pathology of Violent Injury''<ref>{{Cite journal |pmc = 1597717|year = 1979|title = News and Notes|journal = British Medical Journal|volume = 1|issue = 6159|pages = 349–352|pmid = 421122|last1 = Knight|first1 = B.|doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.6159.349}}</ref> *1984 Patrick Atiyah, ''Promises, Morals and Law''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41373791|title = ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 230th Session 1983-4|journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume = 132|issue = 5337|pages = 572–589|year = 1984}}</ref> *1989 P. D. G. Skegg, ''Law, Ethics and Medicine: Studies in Medical Law''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41374868|title = Rsa Report|journal = RSA Journal|volume = 137|issue = 5393|pages = 269–274|year = 1989}}</ref> *1994 John Kelly, ''A Short History of Western Legal Theory''<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 41376533|title = General News|journal = RSA Journal|volume = 142|issue = 5452|pages = 15–23|last1 = Matthews|first1 = Peter|last2 = Wedd|first2 = Kate|last3 = Hilton|first3 = Kevin|last4 = Muir|first4 = Jean|last5 = Bloomfield|first5 = Anne|last6 = Hollaway|first6 = Antony|last7 = Eedle|first7 = James|last8 = Allan|first8 = David|year = 1994}}</ref> *2000 Ronald Dworkin<ref>{{cite web|url=http://as.nyu.edu/object/aboutas.honorsawards.2002|title=FAS Faculty Honors and Awards Through August 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111194141/http://as.nyu.edu/object/aboutas.honorsawards.2002|archive-date=11 January 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=2014-04-26|df=dmy-all}}</ref> *2004 Nicola Lacey, ''A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/globalvisitors/distinguishedglobalfellows/lacey |title=Distinguished Global Fellow {{!}} NYU School of Law |website=www.law.nyu.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426201401/http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/globalvisitors/distinguishedglobalfellows/lacey |archive-date=2014-04-26}} </ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/publications.php?theme=criminol&what=recent&sort=Title |title=The Centre for Criminology :: Publications by Centre Members |website=www.crim.ox.ac.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235048/http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/publications.php?theme=criminol&what=recent&sort=Title |archive-date=2014-04-26}} </ref>
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==Further reading== *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
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