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EDWARD LAW
HUDDERSFIELD & DISTRICT HISTORY
HUDDERSFIELD
COLLEGE PRIZE MEDALS.
THE
MATHEMATICAL AND COMMERCIAL SILVER MEDALS.
These two medals, for proficiency in mathematical and commercial knowledge, were first presented in December 1841, being donated by the President, John Sutcliffe. They were known as the President's Medals and the sponsorship of the medals appears to have passed with the office.
| Mathematical | Commercial | |
| 1841 | J W North (of Honley) | J Baldwin (of Halifax) |
| 1842 | Jonathan Bates | Henry Stott |
| 1843 | J W Wood | J B Greenwood |
| 1844 | Hurndall | Morley |
| 1845 | R Shaw | J W Lupton |
| 1846 | Not awarded | Clough |
| 1847 | J Walker | T Taylor |
| 1848 | * | W H Mein |
| 1849 | W H Broadbent | J W Jackson |
| 1850 | J W Jackson & W Whittaker (equal) | W Whittaker |
| 1851 | Greaves | John Foster |
| 1852 | M R Webb | J Barnicot |
| 1853 | Jos Makinson | G H Robinson |
| 1854 | T H Smith | C Thewlis |
| 1855 | W Broadbent | J A Wrigley |
| 1856 | S Stocks | J Thornton |
| 1857 | J Thornton | Albert Shaw |
| 1858 | J E Webb | C Hirst |
| 1859 | S Fiddian | Alfred Hirst |
| 1860 | Alfred Hirst | Edwin Robinson |
| 1861 | A P Fiddian | A G Wilding |
| 1862 | A G Wilding | E J H Booth |
| 1863 | J Coates | W H Sykes |
| 1864 | W H Sykes | James Alfred Bottomley |
| 1865 | R Appleton | J Sykes |
| 1866 | L Jones [1] | Webb [1] |
| 1867 | G A Webb | G W Morrison |
| 1868 | C G Moore & W Middlebrook (not differentiated) | |
| 1869 | W J Dodds | S Jeffrey |
| First Mathematical | Second Mathematical | |
| 1870 | F Vickerman | R Bruce |
| 1871 | A W Bairstow (of Halifax) | A W Denton [2] |
| 1872 | Robert Bruce | Walter Scott |
| 1873 | H R Kruger [3] | H R Kruger |
| 1874 | E Woodhead | J H Lister |
| 1875 | * | P Tattersfield |
| 1876 | * | A R Wright [4] |
| 1877 | A G Wilkinson [4] | |
| Commercial | ||
| 1878 | Thomas Leach | |
| 1879 | W D Halstead |
* Not mentioned in reports.
1] The medals were described as
1st and 2nd. They have been identified on the assumption that the
Webb of the following year is the same boy, and that the general
rule applied that an individual could not take the same prize
twice.
2] The second mathematical medal fell to Bruce but he had won it
in the previous year.
3] The first Mathematical medal was not gained, but the Board
minutes record that both medals were to be presented to Kruger.
4] In 1876 the medal is described as Commercial, in 1877 as 2nd
Mathematical.
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