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[1] 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.
[2] In 1919, she founded the Hawthornden Prize for a work of imaginative literature, including biography, by an English writer under the age of 41.
[3] Alice Warrender was a judge on the committee awarding the prize until her death.