The Vinerian Scholarship is a scholarship given to the University of Oxford student who "gives the best performance in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law". Currently, £2,500 is given to the winner of the scholarship, with an additional £950 awarded at the examiners' discretion to a (runner-up). The Vinerian Scholarship is the most prestigious law scholarship awarded by the University of Oxford. Past award holders have distinguished themselves in the judiciary, legal practice, academia, civil service and in other fields. The list of scholars includes four Law Lords (Lord Uthwatt, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Edmund-Davies and Lord Saville), and justices of the highest courts in Australia (Dyson Heydon and Patrick Keane), Canada (Ronald Martland) and South Africa (Edwin Cameron). Vinerian scholars Past winners of the Vinerian Scholarship include: Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden Sir Thomas Plumer, MR (1777), University College, Oxford John Taylor Coleridge (1812) Nassau William Senior (1813) Frederic Rogers, Baron Blachford (1834), Oriel College, Oxford Thomas Henry Haddan (1838) Christ Church, Oxford Richard Harington (1858), Christ Church, Oxford Robert Kenyon (1872), Christ Church, Oxford Sir William Cameron Gull, 2nd Baronet of Brook Street (1883), Christ Church, Oxford Henry Straus Quixano Henriques (1891), Worcester College, Oxford F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1896), Wadham College, Oxford Owyn Murray (1897), Exeter College, Oxford Francis de Zulueta (1903), New College, Oxford Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt (1904 joint), University of Melbourne – Balliol College, Oxford Frederick Barrington-Ward (1904 joint), Hertford College, Oxford John Clifford Valentine Behan (1906), University of Melbourne – Hertford College, Oxford George Johnston (1909), Christ Church, Oxford Henry Angus (1914), Balliol College, Oxford Suspended for World War I (1916 – 1920) Harold Hanbury (1921), Brasenose College, Oxford Cyril Pearce Harvey (1923), Brasenose College, Oxford Lord Edmund-Davies (1929), King's College London – Exeter College, Oxford Change in statute to award scholarship on the basis of BCL examinations (1928) Ronald Martland (1931), University of Alberta – Hertford College, Oxford John Gabriel Starke (1934), University of Western Australia – Exeter College, Oxford Alan Brock Brown (1935), New College, Oxford (William) Reginald Verdon-Smith (1936) – Brasenose College, Oxford Norman Marsh (1937) – Pembroke College, Oxford Suspended for World War II (1940 – 1945) Zelman Cowen (1947 joint), Melbourne Law School – New College, Oxford Rex Welsh (1947 joint), University of the Witwatersrand – Oriel College, Oxford Tony Honoré (1948 joint), New College, Oxford William Lederman (1948 joint), University of