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, 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 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 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. 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, 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

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.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, 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, 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 separat ...

, 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 ...

, literature *2014: Anthony C. Winkler, literature;

Petrona Morrison Petrona Morrison (born 1954) is a Jamaican sculptor and media artist. Her work is largely inspired by African art; she uses found objects in assemblages that have both personal and broader social themes. A native of Manchester, Jamaica, 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 ...

, music;

Franklin W. Knight Franklin W. Knight (born 1942, Jamaica) is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of ...

, social history *2012: Horace Fletcher, medical science; Edward Baugh, poetry and scholarship *2011: Hedley Jones, 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 bet ...

, literature *2008: Carey Robinson, community development & heritage;

Mercedes Richards Mercedes Tharam Richards ( Kingston, 14 May 1955 – Hershey, 3 February 2016), née Davis, was a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor. Her investigation focused on computational astrophysics, stellar astrophysics and exoplanets and ...

, astronomy *2007: Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, development of Jamaican music; Bertram Fraser-Reid, chemistry *2006:

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

, literature *2005: Richard Hart, history *2004:

Olive Senior Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions ...

, 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 H ...

, development of Jamaican music; Franklyn Prendergast, medicine *2002:

David Pottinger David "Jack" Pottinger (1911–2004) was a Jamaican painter. Self-taught as an artist, he began his career in the 1940s after participating in Edna Manley's classes at the Junior Centre in Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of place ...

, 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 Lou ...

, music; Basil Barrington Watson, art ; University Singers, music *1999: Erna Brodber, literature ; Errol Morrison, medical science ; Lorna Goodison, 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 Graham Roger Serjeant (born 1938) is a British medical researcher who studied sickle-cell disease in Jamaica, setting up screening programmes and a cohort study from birth. He directed the MRC Laboratories at the University of the West Indies ...

, medical science; John Golding, medical science *1994:

Peter Abrahams Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. Hi ...

, fiction and journalism ;

Manley West Manley Elisha West OM (17 March 1929 - 24 April 2012) was a Jamaican pharmacologist who studied the marijuana plant. He investigated medicines for glaucoma. Education West was born in Fairy Hill, Portland Parish, Jamaica. He studied at Titchfie ...

, pharmacology *1993: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1989–92:

Osmond Watson Osmond Watson (13 June 1934 – 15 November 2005) was a Jamaican painter and sculptor. Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Watson attended art classes at the Institute of Jamaica's Junior Centre from 1948 until 1952; from that ...

, art;

Barry Higman Barry William Higman (born 30 September 1943) is a retired Australian historian of Caribbean studies who primarily taught at the University of the West Indies from 1971 to 1996. During his career, Higman wrote multiple books including the 1977 Bancr ...

, history; Gerald Lalor, science: Robert Hill, history *1988: Alfred Sangster, science and technical education ; Trevor Rhone, drama ; Clive Thompson, dance *1987: Olive Lewin, music ;

Carl Abrahams Carl Myrie Abrahams OD (14 May 1911 – 10 April 2005) was a Jamaican painter from Saint Andrew Parish. Biography Abrahams was born in St Andrew, Jamaica to a middle class family. He began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a ca ...

, 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 Walcott ...

, 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, 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, sculpture *1976:

Victor Stafford Reid Victor Stafford Reid, OJ, (1 May 1913 – 25 August 1987) was a Jamaican writer born in Kingston, Jamaica, who wrote to influence younger generations to embrace local history. He was awarded the silver (1950) and gold (1976) Musgrave Medals , t ...

, literature *1975: Little Theatre Movement, theatre *1974: Nicolas Guillen, literature ; Albert Huie, art *1973: ''No gold medal awarded'' *1972:

M. G. Smith Michael Garfield Smith OM (18 August 1921 – 5 January 1993) was a Jamaican social anthropologist and poet of international repute. Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, M.G. Smith was always a brilliant scholar. When he was a schoolboy at J ...

, anthropology *1971: Amy Jacques Garvey, history *1970: Alvin Marriott, sculpture *1969: Ansel Hart, history *1968: Roger Mais, 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 J. E. Clare McFarlane (12 December 1894 – 13 October 1962) was a Jamaican civil servant and poet. He was appointed Jamaica's second Poet Laureate in 1953, holding the position until his death. He received the Institute of Jamaica's Musgrave Si ...

, 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: Edna Manley, art and literature (first award)

References

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