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    The Alice Prendergast Gift

    Endowed in 1913 by Miss Alice Margaret Dalrymple Prendergast in memory of her Brother Arthur, who had been an Honorary Freeman of the Company. The Prendergast Apprenticeship Fund was originally set up to obtain apprenticeships for Choir Boys of the Parish Churches of the City of London. It was set up at a difficult time as there were limited apprenticeship opportunities during the War years that followed and fully paid work in munitions factories was financially favoured by the boys at this time. Only one recipient is noted during the early years as having been awarded the proposed assistance, Richard John Tarrant in 1918.

    Consequently, the fund was invested and effectively left to one side in the expectation that once it had grown sufficiently, it could be put more efficiently to its intended purpose. It was felt the fund had achieved a sufficient size just before the Second World War, but again it was put on hold due to situation and of course after the War there were very few Choir Boys available.

    In a meeting on 18th April 1950 the Court decided that the fund would be renamed and used to provide an annual sum for the assistance of a student at the Royal Academy of Music (click the images right to see an extract from the Court Minutes, which refer). The fund is now used to assists with the fees of short training courses for choristers at the Royal School of Church Music.

     

    Past Winners:

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    1951/2 - Rita Wingrave

    1953 - Thomas Rolston

    1954 - Peter Sermon

    1955 - Judith G Fraser

    1956 - Rodney McLeod

    1957 - Jeffrey Taylor

    1958 - Judith Louis

    1959 - Laurence Neely

    1960 - Marjorie Biggar

    1961 - Shelley Gunning

    1962 - Martin Ronchetti

    1963 - Sheila Armstrong

    1964 - Andrew Wickens

    1965 - Gene West

    1966 - Peter Wonall

    1967 - Yen Chin Soh

    1968 - Joy Roberts

    1969 - Gareth Roberts

    1970 - Robert Secret

    1971 - Elizabeth Edwards

    1972 - John Blakley

    1973 - Award not minuted

    1974 - Rosemary Furness

    1975 - David Curtis

    1976 - Sara Monsley

    1977 - Anne Mason

    1978 - Christine Taylor

    1979 - Award not minuted

    1980 - Christine Gott

    1981 - Chinere Nwanoku

    1982 - Philip Ball

    1983 - Nicholas Bloomfield

    1984 - Nicola Holland

    1985 - Robert Max

    1986 - Catherine Chanot

    1987 - Sian Bell

    1988 - Paul Brunner

    1989 - James Horan

    1990 - Matthew Trusler

    1991 - Paul Kellett

    1992 - Esther Geldard

    1993 - Adrian Bending

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