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The medals were initially awarded as prizes in a cultural competition. In 1941, the Gold Medal was initiated and awarded in recognition of a "distinguished eminence". The first recipient of the gold medal was artist
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Headley - Veteran musician receives Musgrave Gold medal
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1988: Alfred
Sangster, science and technical education ;
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Robinson, community development & heritage;
511:, literature, Mona Webber, science, Steven Woodham, music;
608:"NOTES ON A HISTORIC VISIT: Nicolás Guillén in Jamaica"
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Guillén, Nicolás; J.A. George Irish (March–June 1975).
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Bucknor, academia; Winston Ewart, music
470:, education; Celia Christie-Samuels, medical research
64:, designer and builder of Jamaica's first solid body
326:1996: Sir Roy Augier, Caribbean education history;
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1982: Clinton Black, history (archival development)
784:", Jamaicans.com, 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
339:1998: Jamaica Library Service, literature ;
323:, medical science; John Golding, medical science
208:1977: Alicia Alonso, artistic excellence ;
141:1966: Phillip Sherlock, history and literature
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782:2017 Musgrave Medals to Outstanding Jamaicans
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239:, dance and West Indian cultural development
116:1954: W. Adolphe Roberts, history literature
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514:2022: Lenford Salmon, theater and culture;
98:1943: Ena Ada Josephine, art and literature
427:2009: Wycliffe Bennett, arts development;
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444:2012: Horace Fletcher, medical science;
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198:1975: Little Theatre Movement, theatre
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536:Awards, Honors & Prizes, Volume 2
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281:, art ; Francis Nicholas, dance
490:2017: Herbert Ho Ping Kong, science
380:Clement Seymore 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd
371:2001: Hon. Lawson Douglas, urology
89:, art and literature (first award)
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864:Recipients of the Musgrave Medal
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55:Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
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497:, music; Basil Burke, science;
869:1889 establishments in Jamaica
795:Musgrave Medal Awards Pioneers
639:Cooke, Mel (18 October 2009).
575:"Musgrave Medals Presentation"
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721:"Musgrave winners lauded"
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249:, philology and etymology
157:1969: Ansel Hart, history
107:1951: George Goode, music
834:"10 get Musgrave Medals"
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366:Basil Barrington Watson
261:Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds
330:, sociological studies
134:No gold medals awarded
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335:No gold medal awarded
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304:No gold medal awarded
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183:No gold medal awarded
146:No gold medal awarded
127:J. E. Clare McFarlane
94:No gold medal awarded
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659:Newspaperarchive.com
429:Maureen Warner-Lewis
349:, literature ;
219:, poetry and theatre
203:Victor Stafford Reid
36:Institute of Jamaica
673:"Musgrave Awardees"
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415:Bertram Fraser-Reid
247:Frederic G. Cassidy
884:Visual arts awards
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314:Manley West
275:Olive Lewin
212:, sculpture
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176:M. G. Smith
164:, sculpture
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