Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts

The Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...

is awarded to "a person who, in a manner other than as an industrial designer, has applied art and design in great effect as instruments of civic innovation", as long as the winner is not already "bedecked with medals". It was first awarded in 1954, on the bicentenary of the Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

, and continues to be awarded annually with exceptions in 2003 and 2006.

List of Bicentenial Medalists

1954 Sir Colin Anderson
1955 Sir Charles Tennyson
Charles Tennyson Turner
Charles Tennyson Turner was an English poet.Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and "heart union" with his greater brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers. He married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's future wife; another...
1956 Sir Walter Worboys
Walter Worboys
Sir Walter John Worboys Kt , was an Australian-born British businessman.He was born in Perth, WA on 22 February 1900 and educated at Scotch College and the University of Western Australia. A Rhodes Scholar, he gained his D.Phil. after a further period of study at Lincoln College, Oxford...
1957 Sir Ernest Goodale
1958 John Gloag
1959 Frank A Mercer
1960 J. Cleveland Belle
1961 Audrey Withers
1962 Sir Robin Darwin
Robin Darwin
Sir Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin KCB CBE was a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art.He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. His sister is the potter Ursula Mommens. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin...
1963 Sir Paul Reilly
Paul Reilly
Paul Reilly is a rugby league player who played for the Huddersfield Giants for 11 years until signing for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats for the 2008 season...
1964 Anthony S. Heal
1965 Hans Juda
1966 G. Graham McK Hughes
1967 Harold Glover
1968 Marcus Brumwell
1969 Sir Duncan Oppenheim
Duncan Oppenheim
Sir Duncan Oppenheim was chairman of British American Tobacco and a noted arts administrator....
1970 T.H.C. Worthington
1971 Sir James Richards
James Maude Richards
Sir James Maude Richards, FRIBA, MA, , was a leading British architectural writer.Richards was born at Epsom, Surrey. Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Cambridge University, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association, but his main career was as a writer on architecture...
1972 Rosamind Julius and Leslie Julius
1973 James S. Cousins
1974 Geoffrey Dunn
1975 Viscount Eccles
Viscount Eccles
Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the Conservative politician David Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles. He had already been created Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, in 1962. the titles...
1976 Jack Pritchard
Jack Pritchard
John Craven Pritchard was a British furniture designer, who was very influential between the First and Second World Wars...
1977 Brooke Crutchley
1979 Sir William Coldstream
William Coldstream
Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British realist painter and a long standing art teacher.-Biography:...
1980 Viscount Caldecote
Robert Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote
Robert Andrew Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote was a 20th century British peer and eminent engineer. The son of Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, he succeeded to the Viscountcy on the death of his father. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he served in the RNVR during World War...
1981 Deryck Healey
1982 Sir Terence Conran
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...
1983 David Maroni
1984 Rowley Atterbury
1985 Sir Kenneth Corfield
1986 John Butcher
John Butcher
John Butcher may refer to:*John Butcher , Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club*John Butcher, 1st Baron Danesfort , British lawyer*John C...
1987 Fiona MacCarthy
Fiona MacCarthy
Fiona MacCarthy OBE is a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th and 20th century arts, crafts and design....
1988 Peter Gorb
1989 Louis van Praag
Louis van Praag
Louis van Praag was a British fashion and industrial designer, described as an influence on a generation of British designers from the 1960s onward. Van Praag played a major role in the development of design education in Britain over several decades...
1990 Sir Peter Parker
1991 Sir Norman Payne
1992 Jeremy Fry
Jeremy Fry
Jeremy Joseph Fry was a British inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, adventurer and arts patron.-Early life:Born into the Fry family on May 19, 1924 in Bristol, he was the second son of Cecil Roderick Fry who as the last chairman of the J. S. Fry & Sons chocolate concern arranged for the sale of the...
1993 Marquess of Bute
Marquess of Bute
Marquess of the County of Bute, shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute.-Family history:...
1994 Helen Auty
1995 Sir John Egan
John Egan (industrialist)
Sir John Egan is a notable British industrialist, associated with businesses in the automotive, airports, construction and water industries. He was chief executive of Jaguar Cars from 1984 to 1990, and then served as chief executive of BAA from 1990 to 1999...
1996 Zeev Aram
1997 Margaret Harris
Margaret Harris
Margaret Frances Harris was an English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer.-Early years:Harris was born in Hayes, Kent, the fourth child and second daughter of William Birkbeck Harris, a Lloyds Insurance clerk, and his wife Kathleen Marion, née Carey...
1998 John Sorrell
John Sorrell
John "Long John" Sorrell was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger in the NHL playing for the Detroit Falcons and the New York Americans...
1999 Stuart Lipton
2000 Wally Olins
Wally Olins
Wally Olins is a practitioner of Corporate identity and branding. Born 19 December, 1930.-Biography:Wally Olins is Chairman of Saffron Brand Consultants of London, Madrid, Mumbai and New York....
2001 Sir Christopher Frayling
Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher John Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.-Biography:Frayling read history at Churchill College, Cambridge and gained a PhD in the study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
2002 Lady Hamlyn
2003 not awarded
2004 Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic is director of the Design Museum, London, England.Before moving to his post at the Design Museum, he contributed to Schoolkids OZ, was the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and Co-Chair of the...
2005 Sheridan Coakley
2006 not awarded
2007 Lord Puttnam
2008 Tom Bloxham
Tom Bloxham
Thomas Paul Richard Bloxham MBE is an award winning property developer, founder of the pioneering urban renewal property development company Urban Splash and member of the judging panel for RIBA's Stirling Prize...
2009 Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and 'chief eternal optimist' for Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need.- Education and personal life :Educated at Kingswood...

and Kate Stohr

List of Bicentenial Medalists

See also