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The Browne Medals (also known as the Sir William Browne's Medals)
''Cambridge University Reporter'', 7 November 2008 are gold medals which since 1774 have been awarded for annual undergraduate competitions in
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. Sir William Browne, who had been president of the
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, died in 1774. His will left an endowment to the university: The endowment, invested as a trust fund called the Browne Fund, is still used to encourage classical study at the university.


List of winners

This list is incomplete. Many of the earlier names of this list have been drawn from Classical Turns. The winners of the prize are published in the ''
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''.


See also

* Bowdoin Prizes at Harvard University


References

{{reflist * 'The Browne Prize Medals', ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' Vol. XIX, No. 4, April 1946, pp. 433–49.


External links


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1865 Browne Medal
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