Mackay Bursary
The Mackay Bursary was founded in 1808 by Duncan Mackay (1741-1808). He mortified the sum of £300 to support one bursar at United College. At Mackay’s behest, the following year the College used a portion of the funds…
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.
Craig-Buchanan Bursary
The Craig-Buchanan Bursary was established by George Dalziel Craig-Buchanan (1772-1842, qv), minister of Kinross from 1804 until his death in 1842. The deed of Disposition and Settlement was written in 1832, and…
Chancellor’s Prize
The Chancellor’s Prize was established in 1766 by Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (1710-1787), who had been elected Chancellor of the University a year earlier. Kinnoull gave £100 to establish four prizes to be…
Carstairs Prize in Mathematics
The Carstairs Prize in Mathematics was founded in 1835 by John Carstairs (1758-1837), a former student who became a military surgeon in India and then London merchant. Carstairs wished to stimulate ‘the ardour and…
Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Logic Prize
In 1865, Margaret Stuart Tyndall Bruce provided funds for the Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Logic Prize (as well as scholarships and bursaries). She directed that remaining money from the endowment be used to award…
Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarships and Bruce Bursaries
On 15 June 1865, Margaret Stuart Tyndall Bruce of Falkland registered a Deed of Mortification, Gift and Endowment of £5,000 of Bank of Scotland stock, in favour of the University of St Andrews. She wished the…
Blyth Scholarship
The Blyth Scholarship was created in 1878 by the will of Agnes Blyth (1825-1880). In her will, Agnes Blyth directed her brother David Carmichael to ‘sell either by public roup or private bargain, as he may think…
Madras Bursaries (1831)
The Madras Bursaries were established in 1831 by the trustees of Andrew Bell, a board of trustees latterly known as The Madras College (St Andrews) Trust. Under the trustees’ direction, the University of St Andrews…
The Tulloch Memorial Fund Scholarship
In 1886, a public subscription raised funds in memory of John Tulloch, late principal of St Mary’s College. The money was used to fund a scholarship. John Grant Tulloch (1823-1886) was born to William Weir Tulloch,…