The St Mungo Prize is a prize awarded triennially to the person who has done most to improve and promote the city of
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
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The full text of the conditions for the prize states that it is to be awarded 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".
The prize consists of a gold medal and £1,000, with the prize funded by a £13,500 trust fund established in 1936 by an anonymous donor. The Glaswegian shoe manufacturer and artist
Alexander Patterson Somerville was revealed to have been the anonymous donor upon his death in 1949.
List of winners
* Lord Provost
Patrick Dollan
Sir Patrick Joseph Dollan (3 April 1885 – 30 January 1963) and his wife, Agnes, Lady Dollan (née Moir; 16 August 1887 –16 July 1966) were Glasgow activists in the Scottish Independent Labour Party. During the First World War the ...
(1940)
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Tom Honeyman
Thomas John Honeyman (10 June 1891 – 5 July 1971) was an art dealer and gallery director, becoming the most acclaimed director of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
Born near Queen's Park, Glasgow, the son of a life insurance m ...
(1943)
* Sir
William Burrell (1946)
* Sir
Stephen Bilsland (1949)
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Violet Mary Craig Roberton (1952)
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Evelyn MacKenzie Anderson (1955)
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John D Kelly (1958)
*
Nevile Davidson (1961)
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Tom Allan (1964)
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Ferguson Anderson (1967)
* Sir
Alexander Gibson (1970)
*
Arthur Oldham (1973)
* Sir
Samuel Curran
Sir Samuel Crowe Curran (23 May 1912 – 15 February 1998), FRS, FRSE, was a physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain.
He is the invent ...
(1976)
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Dorothy Henderson (1979)
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Fred Paton
Fred may refer to:
People
* Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
Mononym
* Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French
* Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico R ...
(1982)
*
Gavin Arneil
Gavin Cranston Arneil (7 March 1923 – 21 January 2018) was a Scottish paediatric nephrologist. At the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, he established the first specialised unit in Britain for children with kidney disease.
Biograph ...
(1985)
*
Jack House
John House (16 May 1906 – 11 April 1991) was a prolific and popular Scottish writer and broadcaster, with a significant attachment to the City of Glasgow.
Early life
East end
House was born in Tollcross, then in the County of Lanark, just o ...
(1988)
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Susan Baird
Susan Baird (26 May 1940 – 24 January 2009) was the Labour Party Councillor for the Braidfauld ward of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. She served as the second female Lord Provost of the city from 1988 to 1992.
She was appointed CBE in the 19 ...
(1991)
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Giles Havergal
Giles Pollock Havergal CBE (born 9 June 1938, in Edinburgh) is a theatre director and actor, opera stage director, teacher, and adaptor. He was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 until he stepped down in 2003, one of the tri ...
(1994)
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George Parsonage (1997)
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Sheila Halley
Sheila (alternatively spelled Shelagh and Sheelagh) is a common feminine given name, derived from the Irish name ''Síle'', which is believed to be a Gaelic form of the Latin name Caelia, the feminine form of the Roman clan name Caelius, meani ...
(2002)
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Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden (2004)
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Willie Haughey
William Haughey, Baron Haughey, (born 2 July 1956) is a Scottish businessman, philanthropist and chair of City Facilities Management Holdings Ltd.
Career
Haughey had attended Holyrood Secondary School followed by Langside College, and then work ...
(2007)
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John Arbuthnott (2010)
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Iain MacRitchie (2016)
References
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1936 establishments in Scotland
Awards established in 1936
Civil awards and decorations of the United Kingdom
Glasgow
Humanitarian and service awards