At his death in 1889, David Berry left £100,000 to the University of St Andrews. At the time, it was by far the largest donation the University had ever received, and it helped the University out of very significant…
Alexander Berry (1781-1873) was born on 30 November 1781, to a Cupar farming family. He attended Cupar Grammar School, then studied at the University of St Andrews from 1796-1798, followed by a year studying medicine…
In 1720, James Brydges, first duke of Chandos, gave £1,000 to the University of St Andrews to endow a new chair. During the early 1720s, Chandos was a director of (and investor in) the slave-trading Royal African…
William Taylour Thomson, CB, KCMG (1813-1883) had a fascinating, if not potentially controversial career, as a life-long diplomat. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Thomson’s career as a civil servant would be spent in…
The Chandos Chair of Medicine was created in 1722 with a gift of £1,000 from James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. The offer of a new chair originated in 1720. Chandos made gifts to several other learned institutions…
Alexander Stewart (d. 1828) was part of the Stewart family of Garth, a significant Highland family whose seat was Garth Castle in Perthshire. Stewart probably studied at St Andrews, and then trained for medicine at…
In 1889, the Universities (Scotland) Act stipulated that there should be a conjoint medical school between St Andrews and Dundee. One of the major donors to the medical school was the Rector of the University, John…
In his will, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847-1900) left £20,000 to endow the Bute Chair of Anatomy (now the Bute Chair of Medicine). This was the most generous of several gifts from Bute during…
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…
The Carstairs Prize in Mathematics was founded in 1835 by John Carstairs (1758-1837), a former student who became a military surgeon in India and then London merchant. Carstairs wished to stimulate ‘the ardour and…