Alice Warrender

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Alice Helen Warrender (16 October 1857 – 23 September 1947) was a Scottish philanthropist, who established one of Britain's earliest annual literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize, in 1919.

Alice Warrender was born at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/14/graham-swift-mothering-sunday-fiction-secretive-award-hawthornden-prize-drue-heinz|title = Graham Swift's Mothering Sunday wins fiction's most secretive award| newspaper=The Guardian |date = 14 July 2017 | last1=Lee | first1=Hermione }} as the eldest of six children of Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet (1825–1901) and Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, daughter of Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell, 7th Baronet. Her younger brother was the admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet.BP2003 volume 1, page 557: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Mosley, Charles, editor. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

In 1919, she founded the Hawthornden Prize for a work of imaginative literature, including biography, by an English writer under the age of 41. Winners received £100 ({{Inflation|UK|100|1919|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) and a silver medal.'Miss Helen Warrender', The Times, 1 October 1947, p.7

Alice Warrender was a judge on the committee awarding the prize until her death. She never married, and is buried at St Martin's Church, Ruislip.[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60357170 Alice Helen Warrender]