Rose Mary Crawshay
| Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay | |||||||
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| Born | 1828 | ||||||
| Died | 1907 | ||||||
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Cathedine, Bwlch, Breconshire | ||||||
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Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907) was born Rose Mary Yeates in Berkshire in England.[1]
She married Robert Thompson Crawshay in 1846 who was last of the Merthyr Tydfil ironmasters, and became the mistress of Cyfarthfa Castle.
She created the Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Prize Fund in 1888, stated by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize for female scholars.[2]
A philanthropist, she paid for part of Vaynor and Penderyn High School in ~1861.
The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, worth £500, is awarded annually for work in the field of English Literature. The award was established in April 1888 by Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay as ‘The Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Yearly Prize Fund’. In 1914, some years after her death, the Charity Commissioners transferred the administration of the prize fund to the Academy. The Prize was first awarded in 1916
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External Publications
Byron Shelley Keats In Memoriam Endowed Yearly Prizes Prize Essays By Competitors 4th Set [Each Writer to be Responsible for Her Own Essay] with Life Incidents of the Foundress, Rose Mary Crawshay
Crawshay, Rose Mary (Foundress)
Published by Mrs. Crawshay, Cathedine, Bwlch, BRECONSHIRE WALES UK
Printed in 3 sections, the first mainly biographical with some essays, the second on 'Domestic Service for Gentlewomen', the third again 'Gossip' and mainly biographical