page_title: Shrewsbury School
section_title: Grants and prizes
hierarchical_section_title: Shrewsbury School / Grants and prizes
caption_attribution_description: Sir Philip Sidney, by unknown artist, given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1925. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch are listed as "unknown author" by the NPG, who is diligent in researching authors, and was donated to the NPG before 1939 according to their website. 18th century copy of an original c. 1578 (see Strong, "Sidney's Appearance Reconsidered", p. 4)
context_page_description: Shrewsbury School is an English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
  Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, it is one of the original seven public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, and one of the 'great' nine identified by the 1861 Clarendon Commission.
  It was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and the school has been co-educational since 2015. There are approximately 130 day pupils. The present site, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the south bank of the River Severn.
  The school's alumni – or "Old Salopians" – include naturalists, poets, academics, politicians, authors, sportsmen, actors, and military figures.
context_section_description: The school awards a number of prizes, some of which have been running for many years, among these are:
  The Sidney Gold Medal, established 1838, The top award Shrewsbury offers, it originally came with a purse of 50 sovereigns as was awarded to the top classicist going on to Oxbridge. The Trustees commissioned Sir Edward Thomason to cut the original die and the image was based on a miniature painted by George Perfect Harding and owned by Dr Kennedy, now in the School collection. The medal was discontinued in 1855 when the stocks were exhausted, but was revived again in 1899. In 1980 the Salopian Club decided that the Medal should be open to all disciplines and not purely the Classics. Since that time the majority of recipients have excelled in the sciences.
  The Arand Haggar Prize, established 1890, original known as “The Mathematics Prize”, an almost unbroken run of the annual competition paper stretches back to 1890, making it one of the longest continually run mathematics competitions in the country.
  The Bentley Elocution Prize, established 1867, candidates are required recite well a poem of at least sonnet length, introduced by Thomas Bentley, whose career at the School spanned more than 50 years. Past winners include Michael Palin.
  Richard Hillary Essay Prize, established 2013, molded on the single word essay formula used for admission for All Souls, Oxford
  The Miles Clark Travel Award, established 1994, recipients of this award have, for instance, cycled around the world for over four years; cycled back to the UK from Siberia, cycled by tandem from the north coast of Canada to Tierra del Fuego - a number of accounts of these travels have been published.
caption: Sir Philip Sidney, former member of the school for whom a medal is named.
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