John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, (1847-1900) was the son of John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848). He became 3rd Marquess of Bute at six months of age, inheriting his family’s estates and vast industrial…
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…
William Garvie (1742-1831) was born in Perth to William Garvie, a merchant there, and Ann Paton. He attended United College then St Mary’s College from 1757 to 1766. The Brechin Presbytery licensed him as a minister in…
John Forbes (1800-1874) was born ‘of poor but respectable Scotch parentage’ in Dunkeld. He attended United College from 1815-1819, then St Mary’s College from 1819-1822, and occasionally between 1822-1824. Forbes was…
William Tullis (1807-1883) of Rothes, Markinch, was the son of Cupar bookseller and printer Robert Tullis and Agnes Smith. He studied at the United College, University of St Andrews, between the years 1820 and 1823 and…
John Gray (1724-1811) was the son of William Gray, a grammar school teacher in Cupar. A student of St Salvator’s College, John Gray received his BA in 1742. After some time as a travelling tutor to several noblemen on…
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…