The subjects for the Prize Competition were as follows:- Dean Ireland’s (i) Greek Prose, More’s Utopia Bk ii ch 5. ‘The people’ – ‘chiefly themselves’. (ii) Greek Verse, Matthew Arnold’s ‘Tristan & Isolde’: ‘And is she happy’ – ‘today’s exact repeated effigy.’ (iii) Latin Prose, Bacon’s essays om ‘Revenge’ – Gumbleton’s English Verse, ‘Gordon’.
The Gumbleton English Verse Prize & the Latin Prose Prize were awarded to C.C.J. Webb Q.S. The subject of the former was “The Confessor’s Abbey of Thorney”. The Greek Prose Prize fell to R. Vavasseur Q.S. & the Greek Iambic Prize to A. Jackson T.B. No one attempted the Phillimore Essay, the topic of which…
The Gumbleton Prize for English Verse has been awarded to C. Webb Q.S. The subject was the St. Gothard Tunnel.
The subject for the Gumbleton English Verse Prize was ‘William the Conqueror’. A second Prize for it was awarded to W.L. Benbow T.B. [This is almost an exact, no doubt erroneous, copy of entry no. 497]
The subject for the Gumbleton English Verse Prize was ‘William the Conqueror’ a second Prize for it was awarded to W.L. Benbow Prin Opp.
The Gumbleton English Verse Prize has been awarded to E.C. Bedford Q.S. A Second prize fell to H.A. Munro T.B.
The subject set for the Gumbleton English Verse Prize of 1880 is Joan of Arc. The School Scripture prizes have been awarded as follows. (Upper Fifth) A.G.L. Rogers. (Under fifth) none awarded. Removes. J.E.R. Webb. W.L. Benbow prin.opp.
The Gumbleton English Verse has been awarded to W.A Peck 1st prize H.C. Benbow 2nd prize The subject was the “Poets’ Corner”.
The Gumbleton English Verse Prize was gained by W.A. Peck, Q.S., prox acc. H.P. Robinson, QS, & H.R. James, Q.S. The subject chosen was Cleopatra’s Needle.
It had been found necessary to add a new panel for the names of two new benefactors of Westminster, namely, the Rev. J. Marshall and G. Gumbleton Esq. The former of whom has given a sum of money to be expended upon an annual prize to the Shell; the latter a like sum upon a…