University Hall Women’s Bursary
From 1895 (if not earlier), a bursary worth £30 was offered specifically to women resident at University Hall. It was open to competition. It was described as being funded by ‘certain members of the professoriate’.…
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New Endowment Association Bursary
The New Endowment Association Bursary was founded 1877, by funds gathered by an association of alumni and friends of the University. It was specifically for entrant (first-year) students. In the 1890s, it was worth…
Endowment Association Bursary
The Endowment Association Bursary was founded 1876, by funds gathered by an association of alumni and friends of the University. In the 1890s, it was worth £20 pa, and was tenable during student’s course at United…
The Endowment Association
The Endowment Association – formally, the ‘Association for the better endowment and extension of the University of St Andrews’ – had its origins in 1865, but was reconstituted in 1877. In its later incarnation, it had…
Cook Testimonial Prize
The Cook Testimonial Prize was founded in 1847 from a public subscription in memory of St Andrews professor George Cook (1773-1845). Cook had been professor of Moral Philosophy, but was also an ecclesiastical…
Friends of George Cook, including Duncan Macfarlan
In 1847, Duncan Macfarlan organised a subscription to raise funds for a Cook Testimonial Prize ‘to commemorate the eminent services rendered to the Church of Scotland’ by Professor George Cook (1773-1845), of the…
Students of Thomas Duncan
In 1858, a public subscription raised funds for a Testimonial Fund and Mathematical Prize in memory of the late Thomas Duncan (c.1777-1858), who had been Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews from…
Duncan Mathematical Prize
The Duncan Testimonial Fund and Mathematics Prize was established in 1858 by an unknown number of well-wishers, in memory of Thomas Duncan (c.1777-1858), Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews from…
Dundonald Bursaries
The Dundonald Bursaries were established in 1673 by the 1st earl of Dundonald (1605-1685), who mortified land to provide bursaries to support seven students (four in ‘philosophy’- [i.e. the Faculty of Arts] and three…
William Hamilton (d.1822)
William Hamilton (d.1822) was the son of an Ayrshire ‘writer’ [i.e. solicitor], William Hamilton of Mauchline. The son also went into the law, and was admitted as a writer to the signet [a more senior solicitor] in…