Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
Statute E
TRUST EMOLUMENTS

Chapter XLI

THE HARNESS FUND

1. The investments from time to time representing the endowment created by the benefaction conveyed to the University in 1871 by the Executive Committee of subscribers to a memorial of the late Reverend William Harness, M.A., Prebendary of St Paul's and Incumbent of All Saints’, Knightsbridge, and formerly of Christ's College, shall constitute a trust fund called the Harness Fund.

2. The income of the fund shall be used to provide a prize called the Harness Prize for the best English essay upon some subject connected with Shakespearian Literature.

3. The University may from time to time make regulations for the prize.