Amy Wemyss (née Beanland, c.1786/91-1861) had been born in Fort William, India, the eldest daughter of an indigo planter and his wife. In 1825, in Calcutta, she married Robert Wemyss of the Bombay Naval Service. He…
The Valentine Bursary was established in 1898 by Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson and his sister Alice Luttrell, in memory of their deceased sister (Emma) Valentine Munro Ferguson (1864-1897). Ronald Ferguson funded the…
Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson (1860-1934) and Alice Luttrell (c1861-1912, née Ferguson) were the children of Colonel Robert Ferguson (d.1868), of Raith, Fife. Their father had inherited lands in Ross-shire, and added…
The Simson Bursary was established in 1891 by Major George Sutherland Simson, formerly of the Madras Cavalry. The Simson Bursary amounted to the residue of his estate and was awarded in the United College bursary…
George Sutherland Simson (1823-c.1891) came from a Fife family with three generations of service in India: his father (also George, 1796-1869) had been born in India, where his father (also George, d.1848) had been…
The Scott Bursary was established in 1893, thanks to a £1,000 bequest by George Scott (d.1893). Scott had intended to create a scholarship, but his executors agreed that the funds be used instead for a bursary. It was…
George Scott (d.1893) was originally from Perthshire, and maintained a home there even after moving to London. He became the Managing Director of Charles Kinloch & Co, a wine, whisky and brandy merchants located on…
William Russell (c.1808-1885) was born in Kilconquhar into a Fife farming family, and educated alongside his brother James Russell (c.1809-1877) at the University of St Andrews between 1822 and 1824. Little is known…
The Russell Bursary was established in 1885 by a benefaction of £5,000 from William Russell, in appreciation of the education received at St Andrews by him and his brother, James. The bursaries were to be awarded,…
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…