In 1847, Duncan Macfarlan organised a subscription to raise funds for a Cook Testimonial Prize ‘to commemorate the eminent services rendered to the Church of Scotland’ by Professor George Cook (1773-1845), of the…
In 1858, a public subscription raised funds for a Testimonial Fund and Mathematical Prize in memory of the late Thomas Duncan (c.1777-1858), who had been Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews from…
The Tulloch Memorial Fund Scholarship was created from funds raised by a public subscription in 1886, in memory of John Tulloch DD, principal of St Mary’s College. We know nothing about who, or how many people,…
The Shairp Memorial Fund was established in 1885 in memory of John Campbell Shairp, Principal of the United College at the University of St Andrews. The fund raised £466 16 s 5d by subscription. Around 180 persons…
John Campbell Shairp (1819-1885) was born on 30 July 1819 in Houston, Linlithgowshire, to Major Norman Shairp and Elizabeth Binning Campbell. From 1799 to 1816, Major Shairp had served in the army of the Bengal…
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…
Christiana Thow (1836-1897) of Craigmore, West Ferry, near Dundee, and Margaret Thow (d. 1885) were sisters who desired to found a scholarship at the University of St Andrews in memory of their father, Thomas Thow…
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…