Vinerian Scholarship
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The Vinerian Scholarship is a scholarship
Scholarship
A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...

 given to the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 student that "gives the best performance in the examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law
Bachelor of Civil Law
Bachelor of Civil Law is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language universities. Historically, it originated as a postgraduate degree in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but many universities now offer the BCL as an undergraduate degree...

." Currently, £2,400 is given to the winner of the scholarship, with an additional £950 awarded to a proxime accessit (at the examiners' discretion). http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/supps/schols/item_99.htm

Past Vinerian Scholars

Past winners of the Vinerian Scholarship include:
  • Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
    Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
    Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden PC SL , was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench between 1818 and 1832. Born in obscure circumstances to a barber and his wife in Canterbury, Abbott was educated initially at a dame school before moving to The King's...

  • Henry Angus
    Henry Angus
    Henry Forbes Angus, was a Canadian lawyer and academic.Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University in 1914. He was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. He fought...

  • Alan Brock Brown
  • Edwin Cameron
    Edwin Cameron
    Edwin Cameron is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS...

  • Zelman Cowen
    Zelman Cowen
    Sir Zelman Cowen, was the 19th Governor-General of Australia. He is currently the oldest living former Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

  • John Dyson Heydon
    Dyson Heydon
    John Dyson Heydon AC QC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...

  • Lord Edmund-Davies
  • John Eekelaar
    John Eekelaar
    John Eekelaar was a law lecturer specialising in family law. In 2005 he retired from teaching after a forty-year career at Oxford University...

  • John Gardner
    John Gardner (law)
    John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford. He received his B.A., B.C.L., M.A., and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he has also been associated with New College , All Souls College , and Brasenose College...

  • Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet of Brook Street
    Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet
    Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet , known as Sir Cameron Gull, was a leading barrister and Liberal Unionist Party politician in England, who served for five years as a Member of Parliament .- Early life :...

  • Lord Hoffmann
  • Ronald Martland
    Ronald Martland
    Ronald Martland, CC, QC, AOE was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.Born in Liverpool, England, he was the second Albertan ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Martland attended the University of Alberta and obtained a B.A. in 1926 and an LL.B in 1928...

  • Sir Thomas Plumer, MR
    Thomas Plumer
    Sir Thomas Plumer MR was a British judge and politician , the first Vice Chancellor of England and later Master of the Rolls....

  • Alfred Ranger
  • Frederic Rogers, Baron Blachford
  • Lord Saville
  • Patrick Keane
    Patrick Keane
    -Education:Chief Justice Keane was educated at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, the University of Queensland and at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford...

  • Graham Virgo
    Graham Virgo
    Graham Virgo is a fellow of, Director of Studies in Law at and Senior Tutor at Downing College, Cambridge and a Professor in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of works on the Law of Restitution and the Criminal Law....

  • Mark Samuel Weinberg
  • Ross Alan Sundberg
  • Rex Walsh
  • V. Niranjan (First Indian)

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