Baxter Bursaries
The Baxter Bursaries were established in 1867 by David Baxter (1793-1872), textile manufacturer of Dundee. He gave £1000 ‘to encourage studies in the University of Saint Andrews, and particularly to aid deserving…
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Madras College, St Andrews
By a deed dated 14 July 1831, Andrew Bell left in trust funds and estates for educational purposes. This amounted to around £120,000, of which £50,000 was to be directed to the founding of Madras College. The secondary…
Gatty Marine Laboratory
The Gatty Marine Laboratory at the University of St Andrews opened in 1896. It replaced the St Andrews Fisheries Laboratory that had been running since 1884: that laboratory had been created by professor William…
Charles Henry Gatty (1836-1903)
Charles Henry Gatty (1836-1903) was born in Marylebone, London, to George Gatty and Frances Jenkinson Sayer, and he was educated at Eton and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. Upon his father’s death in 1864, Charles…
College Hall Company Ltd
The College Hall Company Ltd was launched in 1861 to provide a residential aspect to university life which had been missing since the late eighteenth century. It was the brainchild of James David Forbes (1809-1868),…
Chapel Restoration Fund
The Chapel Restoration Fund was established by James David Forbes (1809-1868), Principal of the United College from 1859 to 1868. The restoration of St Salvator’s Chapel was made possible firstly by principal Forbes’s…
College Hall investors
Technically, subscribers to the College Hall Company Ltd were investors, rather than donors to the University of St Andrews, but they were nonetheless providing financial support for a University project. A list of…