The story behind the Guthrie Scholarship and Cheape Bursaries at the University of St Andrews is one of interconnected influential families, immense business wealth, and exploitative imperial labour systems. In 1865,…
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…