Forrester Prize in Chemistry
The Forrester Prize in Chemistry was founded in 1887 by Walter Forrester who provided £300 to provide one prize of c.£13 to the best student of the year. Mrs Agnes Geddes, Walter’s daughter, wrote to the University of…
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.
Fairweather Bursary
The Fairweather Bursary was established by the trustees of Mary Ann Fairweather (née Sharp, 1820-1881) in memory of her husband, Dundee painter Alexander White Fairweather. She asked her trustees to set up bursaries…
Duncan Bursary
Elizabeth Duncan established the Duncan Bursary in 1841, for the United College at the University of St Andrews, following the death of her entrepreneur brother, Alexander. Elizabeth Duncan gave £800 to the United…
William Byers Scholarship
The William Byers Scholarship was established by Betsy Byers (née Kidd, d. 1878) in memory of her husband, William Byers, who died in 1856. Her sister Ann (Kidd) Bell also established a scholarship, in memory of their…
Buist Bursary
The Buist Bursary was founded in 1876 by James Buist of Law Park, St Andrews, in memory of his brother, the Reverend Dr George Buist, who was a Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Mary’s College. The fund was to…
Garth Bursaries
The Garth Bursaries were founded by a bequest from Dr Alexander Stewart (d. 1828). He gave the University £3,000 in 3% consols, or ‘war bonds’, to fund ‘as many bursaries as possible’. Five bursaries were funded from…
Lectureship in Botany
In April 1891, Principal James Donaldson announced to the University Court that ‘a gentleman interested in the University’ had donated £1000 ‘towards the endowment of a Botanical Lectureship, or future Chair in the…
Guthrie Scholarships
The Guthrie Scholarships were established in 1865 by brothers James Alexander (1823 – 1873) and Arbuthnot Charles Guthrie (1825 – 1897), who gave £6,250 to the University in memory of the father, David Charles Guthrie…
Bute Medical School
In 1889, the Universities (Scotland) Act stipulated that there should be a conjoint medical school between St Andrews and Dundee. One of the major donors to the medical school was the Rector of the University, John…
Cheape Bursary
The Cheape Bursary was established in 1868 by George Clerk Cheape (1801-1886) of Strathtyrum, near St Andrews. He gave the University £1000 in consolidated stock from the Clydesdale Railway Guaranteed Company, the…