Agnes Blyth (1825-1880)
Agnes Blyth (née Carmichael) created the Blyth Scholarship at the University of St Andrews. Born in 1825, Agnes Blyth was the daughter of Charles Carmichael and his wife, Margaret Sommerville. Her father was a founding member of J. Carmichael & Co., high-profile millwrights and engineers of Dundee. Little is known of her own life, other than her marriage to Charles Bell Blyth, a mill manager in Dundee. By June 1878 (when she wrote her will, setting out of the terms of the Blyth Scholarship), she was widowed and was residing at Castle Garden, Crail. Agnes Blyth died in 1880 and her brother David Carmichael was named as her sole executor.