| AdminHistory | Professor Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935), elected a Fellow of the Academy in 1905, decided in 1923 to strike a number of bronze medals for presentation by the Academy to scholars in recognition of special service to Biblical Studies. After his death in 1935 the awards became known as Burkitt Medals.
Sir Frederic Kenyon (1863-1952), elected a Fellow in 1903 and serving in turn as the Academys sixth President and second Secretary, bequeathed to the Academy a sum to provide a medal to be awarded biennially (or at longer intervals if necessary) to the author of some work relating to classical literature or archaeology.
The Serena Medal was endowed by Mr Arthur Serena after Great Britains alliance with Italy in the First World War, to be awarded annually for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics. The first award was made in 1920. |