The Pitt Scholarship at the University of Cambridge was instituted in 1814 using surplus funds originally raised to erect a statue to William Pitt the Younger, supplemented with a donation from the Pitt Club in London. It became the pre-eminent classics University Scholarship of Great Britain.
Recipients
1814: Marmaduke Lawson 1818: Horatio Waddington 1830: Charles Rann Kennedy 1835: William Gilson Humphry 1842: Edwin Gifford 1852: Francis Vaughan Hawkins 1858: Francis Cotterell Hodgson 1865: Frederick Pollock 1934: Christopher Stead
References