In 1948, five Fellows of the College who had won the Hallett Prize on the Primary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England gave £30 each to create a fund, the interest from which would provide a prize to be awarded in connection with the Primary Examination of the College and to be named in honour of Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor.

The five were:

  • J S McMahon
  • R S Lawson
  • H H Eddey
  • K W Starr
  • Grayton Brown.

In subsequent years, other Fellows that also won the Hallett Prize have donated to the fund: R P Melville, C B R Mann, W J Cook, B J Dooley, J N Yelland, G Anderson and L A Riddell.

If two or more candidates are found to have been allocated the same mark, it shall be open to the examiners to take such steps as they may think desirable to enable them to adjudicate the matter.

This prize, a bronze medal, is awarded each year to the candidate who gains the highest marks in each of the Generic Surgical Sciences Examinations.

 

Gordon Gordon-Taylor Prize recipients

2023 - February - Cameron Tuckey (NZ)

2022 - November - Jevan Cevik (VIC)

2022 - June - Dr Nicholas Andrew Chang (NSW)

2022 - February - Lachlan Crawford (QLD)
2021 - October - Victor Liu (NSW)
2021 - June - Morgan Lingard (NZ)
2021 – February – Jordy White (QLD)
2020 - November - Matthew Smith (NSW)
2020 - February – Mendel Castle-Kirszbaum (VIC)
2019 - October - Tharindu Senanayake (NSW)
2019 - June - Christopher Ovenden (SA)
2019 - February - Rennie Qin (NZ)
2018 - October - William McSweeney (QLD)
2018 - June - Cheerag Patel (NZ)
2018 - February - Abraham Rizkalla (NSW) 
2017 - October - Shanan Woo (VIC)
2017 - June - Aneesh Dave (NSW)
2017 -  February - Harry Constantin (NSW)
2016 - October - Jessica Mowbray (NZ)
2016 - June - Andrea Nicole Rodrigues (ACT)
2016 - February - Timothy Roberts (NZ)
2015 - October - Richard Hannan (TAS)
2015 - June - Campbell Schmidt (QLD)
2015 - February - Verinder Sidhu (NSW)
2014 - October - Dianna Li (NSW)
2014 - June - Rebecca Shine (NZ)
2014 - February - Daniel Breen (VIC)
2013 - June - Giorgio Stefanutti (SA)
2013 - February - Anthony Ta (VIC)
2012 - June - Andrew Davidson (NZ)
2012 - February - David Liu (NSW)
2012 - February - Roger Haddad (VIC)
2011 - June - Deepak Chhabra (NSW)
2011 - February - Kheng-Seong Ng (NSW)
2010 - June - Prashanth Rao (NSW)
2010 - February - Andrew MacLeod (VIC)
2009 - June - Michael Hong (VIC)
2009 - February - Shagun Aggarwal (NSW)
2008 - February - Christopher Earle Brooks (VIC)
2007 - October - Nicholas John Gormack (NZ)
2007 - February - Andrew Ko-Wai Cheung (NSW)
2006 - November - Yi Chen (VIC)
2006 - June - Sidney Levy (VIC)
2006 - February - David Wardill (VIC)
2005 - November - Edmund Ek (VIC)
2005 - June - Christopher Gillespie (VIC)
2005 - February - Alex Yuen (VIC)
2004 - Catherine Sinclair (VIC)