The Musgrave Medal is an annual award by the

Institute of Jamaica The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:Webster, Valerie J. (2000), ''Awards, Honors & Prizes, Volume 2'', Gale Group, , p. 447. Originally conceived in 1889 and named in memory of Sir

Anthony Musgrave Sir Anthony Musgrave (31 August 1828 – 9 October 1888) was a colonial administrator and governor. He died in office as Governor of Queensland in 1888. Early life He was born at St John's, Antigua, the third of 11 children of Anthony Musgr ...

, the founder of the Institute and the former Governor of Jamaica who had died the previous year, the medal was the first to be awarded in the Western Hemisphere. The medals were initially awarded as prizes in a cultural competition. In 1941 the Gold Medal was initiated and awarded in recognition of a "distinguished eminence". The first recipient of the gold medal was artist

Edna Manley Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican Order of Merit, OM (28 February 1900 – 2 February 1987) is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica. She was known primarily as a sculptor although her oeuvre included signi ...

in recognition of her work promoting art and literature. A Silver Medal, recognizing "outstanding merit", and Bronze Medal, for merit, are also awarded. The medal was designed by British sculptor Alfred Toft. The first medal was awarded in 1897, as part of Jamaica's celebrations of

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. Until 1906 the medals were only given as prizes in art and craft competitions organised by the Institute. In 2011, eight Musgrave Medals were awarded, with a gold medal for

Hedley Jones Hedley H. G. Jones (12 November 1917 – 1 September 2017) was a Jamaican musician, audio engineer, inventor, trade unionist and writer. He designed and played one of the first solid-bodied electric guitars, designed and built Jamaica's first so ...

, designer and builder of Jamaica's first solid body

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in 1940, and builder of audio equipment including some of Jamaica's early

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and much of the equipment in Studio One.Honouring Headley - Veteran musician receives Musgrave Gold medal
, ''

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'', 14 October 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2012.

Gold Medal winners

*2022: Lenford Salmon, theater and culture;

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, chemist and master blender; Diana McCaulay, author and environmental activist *2021:

Ishion Hutchinson Ishion Hutchinson is a Jamaican poet and essayist. Biography Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the Universit ...

, literature, Mona Webber, science, Steven Woodham, music; *2019: Michael Bucknor, academia; Winston Ewart, music *2018:

Peter Ashbourne Peter Ashbourne CD (born 14 July 1950) is a Jamaican musician and composer who has worked in classical music, jazz, and popular forms such as reggae, sometimes with his group The Peter Ashbourne Affair and more recently with the jazz band Ashes. ...

, music; Basil Burke, science;

Mervyn Morris Mervyn Eustace Morris OM (born 21 February 1937) is a poet and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. According to educator Ralph Thompson, "In addition to his poetry, which has ranked him among the top West In ...

, literature *2017: Herbert Ho Ping Kong, science *2016: ''No medals awarded'' *2015:

Sly and Robbie Sly and Robbie were a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres. Drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare teamed up in the mid-1970s after establishing themselves separa ...

, music;

Orlando Patterson Horace Orlando Patterson (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is the John Cowl ...

, literature *2014:

Anthony C. Winkler Anthony C. Winkler (25 February 1942 – 18 September 2015)

, literature; Petrona Morrison, education; Celia Christie-Samuels, medical research *2013:

Lee “Scratch” Perry Lee may refer to: Name Given name * Lee (given name), a given name in English Surname * Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...

, music; Franklin W. Knight, social history *2012: Horace Fletcher, medical science;

Edward Baugh Edward Alston Cecil Baugh (born 10 January 1936) is a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott, whose ''Selected Poems'' (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the ...

, poetry and scholarship *2011:

, music and audio engineering *2010: Terrence Forrester, science *2009: Wycliffe Bennett, arts development;

Maureen Warner-Lewis Maureen Warner-Lewis (born 1943) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian academic whose career focused on the linguistic heritage and unique cultural traditions of the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Her area of focus has been to recover the links be ...

, literature *2008: Carey Robinson, community development & heritage; Mercedes Richards, astronomy *2007: Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, development of Jamaican music;

Bertram Fraser-Reid Bertram Oliver "Bert" Fraser-Reid (23 February 1934 – 25 May 2020) was a Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who has been widely recognised for his work using carbohydrates as starting materials for chiral materials and on the role of oligosac ...

, chemistry *2006:

Kamau Brathwaite The Honourable Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.Staff (2011)"Kamau Brathwaite." New York University, D ...

, literature *2005: Richard Hart, history *2004: Olive Senior, documenting Jamaican heritage; Mico College, recognizing the importance of Jamaican culture *2003:

Chris Blackwell Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll ...

, development of Jamaican music; Franklyn Prendergast, medicine *2002: David Pottinger, art; Clement Seymore 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd, music *2001: Hon. Lawson Douglas, urology *2000:

Monty Alexander Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander (born 6 June 1944) is a Jamaican jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis ...

, music; Basil Barrington Watson, art ; University Singers, music *1999:

Erna Brodber Erna Brodber (born 20 April 1940) is a Jamaican writer, sociologist and social activist. She is the sister of writer Velma Pollard. Biography Born in the farming village of Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she gained a B.A. from the Unive ...

, literature ;

Errol Morrison Errol York St Aubyn Morrison (born 21 September 1945) is a Jamaican scientist who has done extensive work in diabetes and is president of the University of Technology, Jamaica. He entered the University of the West Indies, University College of ...

, medical science ;

Lorna Goodison Lorna Gaye Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947)Debo ...

, poetry *1998: Jamaica Library Service, literature ;

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*1997: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1996: Sir Roy Augier, Caribbean education history; Stuart Hall, sociological studies *1995: David Boxer, art through institution building and scholarship; Graham Roger Serjeant, medical science; John Golding, medical science *1994: Peter Abrahams, fiction and journalism ; Manley West, pharmacology *1993: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1989–92: Osmond Watson, art; Barry Higman, history; Gerald Lalor, science: Robert Hill, history *1988: Alfred Sangster, science and technical education ;

Trevor Rhone Trevor Dave Rhone (24 March 1940 – 15 September 2009) was a Jamaican writer, playwright and film maker. He co-wrote, with director Perry Henzell, the internationally successful film '' The Harder They Come'' (1972). Life Trevor Rhone, w ...

, drama ; Clive Thompson, dance *1987:

Olive Lewin Olive Lewin OD OM (28 September 1927 – 10 April 2013) was a Jamaican author, social anthropologist, musicologist, and teacher. She is best known for her recorded anthologies of old Jamaica folk songs, researched and collected over her lifeti ...

, music ; Carl Abrahams, art ; Francis Nicholas, dance *1986:

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, literature ; Kenneth E.N. Ingram, librarianship and history scholarship *1985: Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds, painting and sculpture *1984: Cecil A. Baugh, ceramics *1983:

Frederic G. Cassidy Frederic Gomes Cassidy (October 10, 1907 – June 14, 2000) was a Jamaican-born Linguistics, linguist and lexicographer. He was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and founder of the ''Dictionary of American Regional Engl ...

, philology and etymology *1982: Clinton Black, history (archival development) *1981:

Rex Nettleford Ralston Milton "Rex" Nettleford, OM, FIJ, OCC (3 February 1933 – 2 February 2010), was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university ...

, dance and West Indian cultural development *1980: George Proctor, botany *1979: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1978:

Louise Bennett Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of p ...

, poetry and theatre *1977: Alicia Alonso, artistic excellence ;

Ronald Moody Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain in London, as well as the National Gallery ...

, sculpture *1976: Victor Stafford Reid, literature *1975: Little Theatre Movement, theatre *1974: Nicolas Guillen, literature ;

Albert Huie Albert Huie (31 December 1920 – 31 January 2010) was a Jamaican painter. Early life and education Born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old;

, art *1973: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1972: M. G. Smith, anthropology *1971:

Amy Jacques Garvey Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895 – 25 July 1973) was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey. She was one of the pioneering female Black journalists and publishers of the 20th century.< ...

, history *1970:

Alvin Marriott Alvin Tolman Marriott (29 December 1902 – 20 September 1992) was a Jamaican sculptor. He worked in Europe, North and Central America, and Jamaica. Many of his carvings and statues are on public display and in administrative buildings in Jama ...

, sculpture *1969: Ansel Hart, history *1968:

Roger Mais Roger Mais (; 11 August 1905 – 21 June 1955) was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, he had won ten first prizes in West Indian literary competitions.Ha ...

, literature, posthumously *1967: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1966: Phillip Sherlock, history and literature *1965: Theodore E. Sealy, cultural development *1959–64: ''No gold medals awarded'' *1958: J.E. Clare McFarlane, poetry *1955–57: ''No gold medals awarded'' *1954: W. Adolphe Roberts, history literature *1952–53: ''No gold medals awarded'' *1951: George Goode, music *1944–50: ''No gold medals awarded'' *1943: Ena Ada Josephine, art and literature *1942: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1941:

, art and literature (first award)

References

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