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Dillon Struwig wins Patrick Nuttgens Award

Posted on 16 May 2013

Dillon Struwig has won the York Georgian Society’s Patrick Nuttgens Award for 2013. He is shown with Bridget Nuttgens (widow of Patrick), who presented the Award on Saturday 9 March.

The winner is a second-year PhD student in the Department of English at the University of York. His research is on the poet, critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, focusing on the role of concepts of space, time, and the infinite in the latter’s philosophical and theological prose. Central to this is the study of notebooks, marginalia, and unpublished manuscript fragments. These are important because Coleridge published so little prose work and his marginalia, for example, often constitute short essays written alongside the texts of others. The materials which Dillon Struwig now needs to consult are all in the British Library, London, and the Nuttgens Award will crucially enable him to spend time studying there.

As in previous years the excellence of the applications made the task of selecting a winner extremely difficult for the judging panel. In addition, therefore, to the nomination of an outright winner, a certificate of high commendation, accompanied for the first time by a smaller cash prize, has been awarded. The recipient is Thomas Almeroth-Williams, a third-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of York. His research project, entitled City of Beasts: The Impact of Quadrupeds in Georgian London, re-assesses life and architecture in Hanoverian London by examining the role played by the city’s animals, in particular horses and livestock.

Patrick Nuttgens (1930–2004), described by the Oxford DNB as an ‘architect, broadcaster and educationist’, was a well-known and warmly remembered figure, both locally and nationally. He was founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies within the University of York, and successively Secretary, Chairman and President of the York Georgian Society. The Award, named in his honour and first offered in 2008, is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Society and the University of York. It provides for a grant to be awarded annually to a PhD student researching an aspect of the Georgian period.