Porson Prize

Winners of the Porson Prize

• 1817: George James Pennington for 2 Henry IV 3.1.
• 1818: William Sidney Walker for Henry VIII 3.2.
• 1819: Horatio Waddington for Coriolanus 5.3.
• 1820: William Henry Fox Talbot for Macbeth 1.7.
• 1821: William Foster Barham for Othello 1.3.
• 1822: William Foster Barham for Julius Cæsar 4.3.
• *Second prize: C. Wimberly.
• 1823: Benjamin Hall Kennedy for Henry VIII 5.4.
• 1824: Benjamin Hall Kennedy for Merchant of Venice 4.1.
• 1825: John Hodgson for King John 4.2.
• 1826: Benjamin Hall Kennedy for King John 3.3.
• *Second prize: John Wordsworth.
• 1827: John Wordsworth for As You Like It 2.2.
• 1828: Christopher Wordsworth for Troilus and Cressida 3.3.
• 1829: Charles Rann Kennedy for Henry VIII 4.2.
• 1830: Charles Rann Kennedy for Romeo and Juliet 2.2.
• 1831: George John Kennedy for As You Like It 2.1.
• 1832: Henry Lushington for Julius Cæsar 2.2.
• 1833: Henry Lushington for Richard II 3.2.
• 1834: Edward Howes for Richard II 3.2.
• 1835: William James Kennedy for 3 Henry VI 2.2.
• 1836: Charles John Vaughan for Richard II 2.1.
• 1837: Charles John Vaughan for King Lear 3.2.
• 1838: Thomas Evans for Henry V Act 4.
• 1839: Edward Meredith Cope for 3 Henry VI 2.5.
• 1840: Robert Andrews for Troilus and Cressida 1.3.
• 1841: George Druce for The Tempest 4.1.
• 1842: George Druce for Henry V 4.1.
• 1843: William George Clark for Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1.
• 1844: Edward Thring for 2 Henry IV 2.4.
• 1845: Thomas Markby for Hamlet 1.3.
• 1846: George James Gill for Julius Cæsar 1.2.
• 1847: George James Gill for Henry V 1.2.
• 1848: Edward Henry Perowne for Hamlet 1.2.
• 1849: Francis Kewley for Julius Cæsar 1.1.
• 1850: William Owen for Merchant of Venice 5.1.
• 1851: George Bentley Morley for 2 Henry IV 4.4.
• 1852: Samuel Hawksley Burbury for Macbeth 1.7.
• 1853: Samuel Hawksley Burbury for Jonson's The New Inn 4.3.
• 1854: Henry Montagu Butler for Jonson's Volpone 3.1.
• 1855: Edward Lawford Brown for Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca 3.2.
• 1856: Arthur Holmes for 3 Henry IV 1.4.
• 1857: Arthur Holmes for All's Well That Ends Well 1.2.
• 1858: Arthur Holmes for Measure for Measure 2.3.
• 1859: Awarded both Richard Claverhouse Jebb and to Robert Chapman Whiting æqualiter for Julius Cæsar 5.1.
• 1860: Henry Yates Thompson for Dekker and Massinger's Virgin Martyr 4.3.
• 1861: Awarded both Charles Edward Graves and to Henry Whitehead Moss æq. for 2 Henry IV 2.3.
• 1862: Henry Whitehead Moss for Taming of the Shrew 5.2.
• 1863: Henry Whitehead Moss for Twelfth Night 5.2.
• 1864: Thomas William Brogden for Richard II 5.2.
• 1865: John Edwin Sandys for Macbeth 3.2.
• 1866: John Edwin Sandys for Measure for Measure 3.1.
• 1867: Thomas Moss for The Tempest 1.2.
• 1868: George Charles Winter Warr for Jonson's Catiline 5.6.
• 1869: Richard Dacre Hodgson for 1 Henry VI 4.5.
• 1870: Awarded both Edmund Gurney and to Thomas Ethelbert Page æq. for 2 Henry IV 1.1.
• 1871: Henry Rees Philipps for 1 Henry IV 3.2.
• 1872: Henry Rees Philipps for Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.7.
• 1873: Henry Wace for Massinger's Maid of Honour 1.1.
• 1874: Henry Wace for Fletcher's The Bloody Brother 4.1.
• 1875: Awarded both John Archibald Sharkey and to Henry Wace for Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2.
• 1876: Awarded both George Chawner and to Harry Rede Tottenham.
• 1877: Arthur Frederick Chance.
• 1878: Henry Charles Finch Mason for Macbeth 2.1.
• 1879: Arthur Frederick Chance.
• 1880: Awarded both Cecil Hill Garland and to William Ralph Inge.
• 1881: James Duff Duff .
• 1882: Owen Seaman.
• 1883: Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt.
• 1884: William Longbourne Smith.
• 1885: Awarded both Joseph Robinson Orford and to Norman Kenneth Stephen.
• 1886: Norman Kenneth Stephen.
• 1887: Walter George Headlam.
• 1888: Awarded both John Patrick Murray Blaekett and to Reynold Alleyne Nicholson.
• *Honourably mentioned: A.R.F. Hyslop.
• 1889: John Patrick Murray Blaekett.
• *Honourably mentioned: G.A. Davies and T.R. Glover.
• 1890: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson.
• *Proxime accessit : F.J. Kittermaster.
• 1891: Terrot Reaveley Glover.
• *Honourably mentioned: W.H. Jacques and F.J. Kittermaster.
• 1892: Isaac Frank Smedley.
• 1893: Henry William Monle.
• *Honourably mentioned: L. Horton-Smith and J.D.C. White.
• 1894: Albert Darby Nightingale.
• *Honourably mentioned: H.S.S. Parker and J.D.C. White.
• 1895: Albert Darby Nightingale.
• *Honourably mentioned: H.F. Moule.
• 1896: Not awarded.
• 1897: Not awarded.
• 1898: John Hubert Marshall.
• 1899: John Edwin Clapham Jukes.
• *Honourably mentioned: R.K. Gaye.
• 1900: Russell Kerr Gaye.
• 1901: Gilbert Norwood.
• *Proxime accessit: A.S. Gaye.
• 1902: John Tresidder Sheppard for Troilus and Cressida 4.5.
• *Honourably mentioned: B.H.Dobson.
• 1903: Gilbert Norwood.
• *Honourably mentioned: B.H. Dobson and W.B. Anderson.
• 1904: Thomas Irving Ward Wilson.
• 1905: Edward Gordon Selwyn.
• 1906: Awarded both Stuart Kelson Brown and to Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow.
• 1907: Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow.
• *Proxime accessit: D.S. Robertson.
• 1908: Charles Ambrose Storey.
• *Honourably mentioned: A.S.F. Gow.
• 1909: Francis Winstanley Haskins.
• *Proxime accessit: J.R.M. Butler.
• 1910: James Ramsay Montagu Butler.
• 1911: Francis Winstanley Haskins.
• *Honourably mentioned: W.B. Chope.
• 1912: Gordon Kerr Montagu Butler.
• *Honourably mentioned: E.O.Lee.
• 1913: Edward Owen Lee.
• 1914: Frank Laurence Lucas.
• *Honourably mentioned: J.O. Thomson.
• 1915: Edward Hallett Carr.
• 1916: Not awarded.
• 1917: Not awarded.
• 1918: Not awarded.
• 1919: Not awarded.
• 1920: Victor Joseph Dunstan.
• *Honourably mentioned: B.C.C. Olivier and E.H. Warmington.
• 1921: Joseph Vivian Wilson.
• *Proxime accessit: P. W. Duff and B. C. C. Olivier.
• *Honourably mentioned: A. D. Nock.
• 1922: William Smart Wright.
• *Proxime accessit: William le B. Egerton.
• *Honourably mentioned: P. W. Duff and J. H. N. Lawson.
• 1923: Desmond Francis Haslett Macbride and Eric Cecil Prussia, aeq.
• *Proxime accessit: William le B. Egerton and H. S. Kenward, aeq.
• 1924: Einar Athelstan Gordon Caroe.
• *Proxime accessit: E. C. Prussia.
• 1925: David Edward Eichholz.
• *Honourably mentioned: W. H. J. Christie and K. W. Luckhurst.
• 1926: Pierson John Dixon.
• *Proxime accessit: W. E. Philip.
• 1927: William Elmslie Philip.
• *Honourably mentioned: P. H. Vellacott.
• 1928: Walter Hamilton
• *Proxime accessit: P. H. Vellacott.
• 1929: Walter Hamilton.
• *Honourably mentioned: S. Chapman, L. H. M. Gulland and D. E. W. Wormell.
• 1930: Francis Anthony Kendrick.
• *Proxime accessit: John Hensley.
• *Honourably mentioned: Frederick Willoughby Allen and William Lethbridge Gorell Barnes.
• 1932: John Enoch Powell.
• 1933: Frederick William Clayton.
• 1934: Leonard Abraham Jones.
• *Honorably mentioned: Richard Portway Dobson.
• 1935: W. A. Edward and F. H. Stubbings aeq.
• 1936: M. Grant.
• 1937: G. M. Lee.
• 1938: A. Mayor.
• *Honorably mentioned: C. Ellenbogen.
• 1939: C. J. Wiles.
• *Proxime accessit: H. V. Brandon.
• 1942: David Mervyn Jones.
• 1947: Edward Albert Vincent.
• 1948: M. D. Macleod.
• *Honorably mentioned: M. W. M. Pope.
• 1949: Charles Garton.
• 1950: M. M. Willcock.
• 1951: W. G. Arnott.
• 1952: William G. Arnott.
• 1955: Roger David Dawe.
• 1956: Roger D. Dawe.
• 1960: Colin Peter Sydenham for Arnold's Merope 1904-1965.
• 1961: D. J. Blackman
• 1962: Colin François Lloyd Austin.
• 1965: J. Diggle.
• *Proxime accessit : D. M. Forrster.
• 1970: Richard George Alexander Buxton for Richard II 3.2.
• 1976: Giovanni Remo Franceso Ferrari and James Frederick Warren aeq.
• *Honorably mentioned: Adrian Merlin Daniels.
• 1977: James Frederick Warren.
• 1992: N. J. G. Lane.
• 1993: N. J. G. Lane.
• 1994: N. J. G. Lane.
• 1996: Matthew Oliver McCullagh.
• 1998: C. C. F. Barker.
• 2000: G. M. Lee.
• 2008: Thomas Ford
• 2016: N. C. Hess.
• 2017: N. C. Hess.