St Mungo Prize consists of a gold medal and £1,000, with the prize funded by a £13,500 trust fund established in 1936 by an anonymous donor. The Glaswegian shoe manufacturer and artist Alexander Patterson Somerville was revealed to have been the anonymous donor upon his death in 1949. St Mungo Prize The St Mungo Prize is a prize awarded triennially to the person who has done most to improve and promote the city of Glasgow. The full text of the conditions for the prize states that it is to be awarded to the person "deemed to have done most in the previous three
Mungo Melvin Reviews of Melvin's book concentrated on this question. Alexander Rose in the New York Times referred to "Mungo Melvin’s authoritative and splendidly comprehensive biography", and called Manstein Rose was also critical of what he saw as Melvin's narrow focus on military matters. He wrote: Tom Nagorski in the Wall Street Journal called "Manstein" "interesting but flawed," finding fault with its concentration on detailed descriptions of Manstein's work as a military commander. He wrote: Mungo Melvin Major-General Robert Adam Mungo Simpson Melvin (1955) CB OBE is a retired British British Army officer, and a noted military historian. He is best known