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…
Category: Funds
This category of posts covers all the things that the University of St Andrews did with the monies it was gifted in the period 1700 to 1900, from all donors (not just those connected in some way to colonialism). Many of these purposes were bursaries and scholarships, but there were also prizes and capital projects.
Thomas Thow Scholarship
The Thomas Thow Scholarship at the University of St Andrews was founded with £2,000 in 1897 by the Trustees of the late Miss Christiana Thow of Craigmore, West Ferry, near Dundee, according to the desire of Christiana…
Gifford Lectureship in Natural Theology
The Gifford Lectureship in Natural Theology was set up by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford in 1887. £15,000 was bequeathed to the University of St Andrews for a series of philosophical and theological lectures…
Dow Bursary
The Dow Bursary was created by the will of Peter or Patrick Dow of Balmyle. The bursary provided two bursars with £10 annually for four years, with preference for former pupils of Kirkmichael school in Blairgowrie.…
Spence Bursary
The reverend John Spence (1880-1866) established the Spence Bursary at the University of St Andrews. He gave £1,000 respectively to Dundee Royal Infirmary respectively and £12,670 to the University of St Andrews and…
Sharp Bursary
The Sharp Bursary was founded by John Sharp (1788-1857), who had been a very successful baker in Perth. He left £500 to fund a Sharp Bursary, to enable a student to study for the church at any Scottish University. It…
Selkirk Bursary
The 1866 will of George Selkirk (c1786-1871) provided for a bursary to be set up after his death at the University of St Andrews. This was the Selkirk Bursary. The childless retired cloth merchant arranged that, after…
George Selkirk (c.1786-1871)
The son of labourer George Selkirk and his wife, Elizabeth Christie, George Selkirk (c.1786-1871) of Markinch was a cloth merchant and the 1861 Census records him as living on Markinch Street. He never married. A…
Malcolm Bursary
In a deed of mortification dated 12 April 1708, Robert Malcolm established a bursary which would be known as the Malcolm Bursary and which would be given to two students for four years. This amounted to 5,000 merks…
John and Isabella MacDougall Bursaries
The John and Isabella MacDougall Bursaries were created by the will of Isabella MacDougall of Perth (1806-1883) and funded by ‘Miss Isabella MacDougall’s Trust’. The bursaries were for the benefit of meritorious…