Gaisford Prize - Winners of The Gaisford Prize For Greek Prose

Winners of The Gaisford Prize For Greek Prose

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• 1857: Robert Dobie Wilson (Balliol) for Empedocles, Dialogues Græcus.
• 1858: George Rankine Luke (Balliol) for Nicias, sive De superstitione.
• 1859: Henry Nettleship (Corpus Christi and Lincoln) for Pygmaeorum Civitas.
• 1860: James Bryce (Trinity and Oriel) for The Plague of London, in the style of Herodotus or Plato.
• 1861: Charles Bigg (Corpus Christi and Christ Church) for Milo, sive de Gymnastica.
• 1862: Charles John Pearson (Corpus Christi) for Timæus Novus, sive De Geologia: Dialogus Platonicus.
• 1863: Augustine Ley (Christ Church) for Marco Polo: Narratio ad Examplar Herodoteum.
• 1864: A Platonic Dialogue, Socrates apud inferos more suo Atheniensum principes reipublicæ interrogat.
• 1865: William Henry Simcox (Queen's) for Sancti Ludovici mors, res gestæ, ingenium, after Thucydides.
• 1866: Francis de Paravicini (Balliol and Christ Church) for Cratylus, sive de hominum sermonis origine.
• 1867: William Wallace (Balliol and later Merton) for The Aztecs in Herodotean style.
• 1868: Alfred Goodwin (Balliol) for Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι, a Platonic dialogue.
• 1869: Robert Lowes Clarke (Balliol) for The Reign of Terror, in the style of Thucydides.
• 1870: John Arthur Godley (Balliol) for Φειδίας ἢ περὶ ἀνδριαντοποιΐας: a Platonic dialogue.
• 1871: George Edward Jeans (Pembroke and Hertford) for Iceland: in Herodotean prose
• 1872: Alfred Joshua Butler (Trinity and Brasenose) for Ullane sint reconditioris doctrinæ vestigia apud Homerum reperienda?
• 1873: William Wardlaw Waddell (Balliol) for The Siege of Londonderry, in the style of Thucydides.
• 1874:, A Platonic dialogue, "Esse aliquid manes". De spectris et simulacris mortuorum quid revera sentiendum sit.
• 1875: Edward Maclaine Field (Trinity) for The Sources of the Nile. Prose in the Style of Herodotus (Viator Anglus Nili fontes explorans quæ viderit narrat.).
• 1876: George Spencer Bower (New College) for a Platonic dialogue, Socrates Aristophanes Sophocles de Arte Poetarum inter se colloquuntur.
• 1877: Arthur Elam Haigh for The Popish Plot, in the style of Thucydides.
• 1878: Philip Edward Raynor (New College) for a Platonic dialogue, Ἀναξίμανδρος ἢ περὶ ζῴων γενέσεως.
• 1879: David Samuel Margoliouth (New College) for Japanorum reipublicæ conversio.
• 1880: William Yorke Fausset (Balliol) for a Platonic dialogue, De Œconomia quam vocant Politica.
• 1881: Richard Edmund Mitcheson (St. John's) for Speeches in accusation and defence of Warren Hastings.
• 1882: William Ross Hardie for a Platonic dialogue, Δημηγορία, Τίς ἐστιν ἡ ποιητική (Inter Rhetoricam et Poeticam quid intersit).
• 1883: William Edward Long (Magdlalen) for The Wandering Jew, in the style of Herodotus.
• 1884: Cecil Henry St Leger Russell (Trinity) for The Athenian state: a platonic dialogue.
• 1885: Walter Ashburner (Balliol and Merton) for The Spanish Armada in the style of Thucydides.
• 1886: Michael Henry Mansel Wood (Trinity) for Prometheus sive De hominum natura et origine, a Platonic dialogue.
• 1887: Gilbert Murray (St. John's) for Mesolonghi Capta (in the Historical Register (1900) as Missolonghi Capta).
• 1888: Frederick William Hall (Trinity) for Πότερον ἐὰν ἀπόληται τὸ κακὸν οὐδὲ πεινῆν ἔτι ἔστι ἢ διψῆν, ἤ τι ἄλλο τῶν τοιούτων... (or De origine Mali).
• 1889: Reginald Carter (Balliol) for The Battle of Inkermann, in the style of Thucydides.
• 1890: Henry Stuart Jones (Balliol) for Δάμων ἢ περὶ μουσικῆς or De origine et vi artis musicæ.
• 1891: Julian James Cotton (Corpus Christi) for The Story of Husain and the Mohurram Celebration in the East.
• 1892: Philip Herbert Hanson (Balliol) for Νικίας: Τῆς ἄνω ὁδοῦ ἀεὶ ἐσόμεθα'.
• 1893: Wilfred Ormrod Bailey (Trinity) for A supposed speech of Abraham Lincoln on the occasion of his second election to the presidency of the United States, in the style of Thucydides.
• 1894: Herbert Sidebotham for Ἀριστοφάνης ἢ περὶ τοῦ γελοίου.
• 1895: George Stuart Robertson (New College) for Herodotus in Britain.
• 1896: Prose in the manner of Socrates: A Defence of Despotism.
• 1897: Edward Launcelot Davey Cole (Balliol) for Wordsworth 'Of the Principles of Poetry' and the 'Lyrical Ballads'.
• 1898: Ernest Ely Genner (Balliol) for On the Causes and Conditions of Naval Supremacy.
• 1899: Frederick Herbert Williamson (Balliol) for The Principle of Isolation in British Foreign Policy.
• 1900 Heathcote William Garrod (Balliol) for Erasmus on the Renascence of Literature.
• 1902: James McLean Watson (Oriel) for Relations Between a Mother Country and her Colonies.
• 1903: Robert William Chapman (Oriel) for Advantages of an Academy of Letters.
• 1904: William Moir Calder (Christ Church) for The Possibility of a Federal Union of the English-Speaking Peoples.
• 1905: Thomas Williams Phillips (Jesus) for Imperatores Divus Iulius et Napoleon de rebus a se domi militiaeque gestis apud inferos colloquuntur.
• 1906: Hugh McKinnon Wood (Balliol) for Διογένης ἢ περὶ παρρησίας.
• 1907: John Davidson Beazley (Balliol) for Herodotus at the Zoo.
• 1908: Leslie Whitaker Hunter (New College) for Warren Hastings' Defence of his Administration in India.
• 1909: George Douglas Brooks (Worcester) for The Relation between Art and Morality.
• 1911: George Leicester Marriott (Exeter) for A Dialogue Between Socrates, Agathon and Aristophanes, τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι κωμῳδίαν καὶ τραγῳδίαν ἐπίστασθαι ποιεῖν.
• 1912: Cecil John Ellingham for Πορφυρίων Δίης Τύραννος.
• 1913: Godfrey Rolles Driver (New College) for Στάσεως ἐν Βρεταννοῖς γενομένης, λέγει μὲν ὁ προστάτης τοῦ δήμου, ἀντιλέγει δὲ ὁ στρατηγός...
• 1914: Harry Samuels for Crates, sive De vita simplici, a dialogue.
• 1915: Robert Walter Theodore Gordon Scott for Panama.
• 1921: Christian James Fordyce (Balliol) for Herodotus in Ireland: being part of the third book of his account of Britain.
• 1922: William Francis Ross Hardie (Balliol) for A Lucianic dialogue between Socrates in Hades and certain men of the present day.
• 1923: Basil Edward Butler for Ἡράκλειτος, a translation of a passage from Prof. Eddington's Romanes lecture (1922).
• 1926: Ronald Syme (Oriel) for a section of Thomas More's Utopia into Platonic prose.
• 1927: Colin Hardie (Balliol).
• 1930: Peter J. McGowen for a translation of Leo Tolstoy's The First Step, chapter 7.
• 1931: John Langshaw Austin (Balliol).
• 1932: Humphry Gilbert Bohun Lynch (Merton) for a translation of the Areopagitica.
• 1933: Arthur Frederick Hall for Boswell's Life of Johnson (Everyman Edition, vol. 1, pp. 272–275) in the style of Lucian.
• 1934: W.H. Walsh for Envoys from Russia and Japan seek alliance with Chinese Republic.
• 1936: John Godfrey Griffith for a translation of Tolstoy's Thou Shalt Not Kill.
• 1937: Henry Arthur Pears Fisher for Burke's Letters on a Regicide Peace.
• 1938: Vincent Turner for A.E. Housman's Introductory Lecture (1892).
• 1939: David Penistan Simpson for Characters in the Style of Theophrastus: the Snob, the Prig, and the Pedant.
• 1948: John Francis Bligh for Thomas Erskine's Speech in Defence of Mr. John Frost, 1793.
• 1995: Deborah W. Rooke (Regent's Park).
• 1996: Holger Gzella (Worcester).
• 1997: Martin Revermann (Corpus Christi).
• 1998: Sinead Willis (New College).
• 1999: Letizia Poli-Palladini (Balliol).
• 2000: Luke Pitcher (Somerville).
• 2002: Oliver Thomas (New College).
• 2009: Christopher White (Magdalen).