Patrick Kidd Scholarship
The Patrick Kidd Scholarship was created by the will of Ann Kidd or Bell (d.1877) in memory of her father, Patrick Kidd, who farmed at Balgray in Angus. In her will, Ann Bell had instructed that the scholarship be for one student in the Faculty of Arts of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and for it to be held by one student for three years. Students from the parish of Mains and Strathmartine or from Dundee were to be preferred. She also stipulated that it be known as ‘Patrick Kidd’s Scholarship’, but it was named the Patrick Kidd Scholarship. The scholarship amounted to £1,000. The Senatus Academicus regulated that the student must be in the Arts faculty, but will be given the option to study medicine for their third year (an annus medicus); the student would then be expected to take the degree of M.D. Betsy Byers, Ann Bell’s sister, mimicked Ann by creating the William Byers Scholarship at the University of St Andrews in memory of her husband.