University of St Andrews

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Education Helen Bannerman
Helen Watson (later HB ) graduated with an L.L.A. (Lady Literate in the Arts) through external examinations under the auspices of the University of St Andrews , two years before it and other Scottish universities...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Colin Campbell
Lord Colin Campbell, born on 8 March 1853 to George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of Argyll, and his wife, born Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower ,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Douglas Campbell
“The Late Lord Colin Campbell”. The Scotsman, Scotsman Publications, p. 7.
(19 June 1895): 7
was described...
Education Anne Carson
After her receiving her undergraduate degree in 1974, AC embarked on a Master's program in Classics, again at the University of Toronto , in 1975. While enrolled at Toronto she travelled to St Andrews in...
Education Zoë Fairbairns
While an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews , ZF spent a year studying at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia,USA, for one year during her degree course at St Andrews University
Education Zoë Fairbairns
ZF obtained her MA (as a first degree) from the University of St Andrews , the oldest university in Scotland.
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Poetry and Drama”. Zoë Fairbairns.
Reception Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Professor James Stuart , an old friend who was currently Rector of St Andrews University , recommended that this institution award MGF an Honorary LL.D to recognise her work for the higher education of women...
Education Mary Gawthorpe
She had recently been taking classes in singing at Leeds College of Music (another subject in which she was awarded a scholarship). A course in elocution at the same institution proved useful later on, in...
Friends, Associates Dora Greenwell
Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
297-8, 429
Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press.
18-20, 22
Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, pp. 47-74.
50, 51
Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, pp. 233-57.
240
Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press.
215
She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott
Employer Kathleen Jamie
She has been a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews , where she taught for half the year only. She is now Professor of Poetry at Stirling University .
Kathleen Jamie: University of St Andrews. http://web.archive.org/web/20070819071949/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/jamie/home.html.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, pp. 39-40.
39
“Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962 )”. Scottish Poetry Library.
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jebb
He had struggled with his conscience over this decision for several years, writing to a friend that he found the sensations of conjugal and paternal love, opposed to the sense of duty.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
52
He applied...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Melvill
EM 's eldest son, Alexander Colville , was educated for the ministry in Scotland before travelling to Europe to teach Hebrew and physics at the protestant academy at Sedan in the French Ardennes. He...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
In 1867 Mill was made rector of the University of St Andrews .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Education Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM ) attended a course in logic, taught by Professor D. G. Ritchie , at St Andrews University in Scotland.
Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan.
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Employer Willa Muir
Willa Anderson (later WM ) began working in the Classics Department at St Andrews University , where she served as an assistant in Latin.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Willa Muir
At twenty years old, Willa Anderson (later WM ) met her first love, Cecil Wilmot Morrison , a medical student at St Andrews University and a star university rugby player. Their engagement, made in the...

Timeline

About 1411: The University of St Andrews was founded...

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About 1411

The University of St Andrews was founded by Henry Wardlaw , Bishop of St Andrews, Scotland.

1451: After a petition by James II of Scotland,...

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1451

After a petition by James II of Scotland , initiated by William Turnbull , the University of Glasgow was founded under a Bull of Pope Nicholas V .

3 November 1729: Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University...

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3 November 1729

Professor Thomas Simson Chandos of the University of St Andrews published The System of the Womb . . ..

October 1865: Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's...

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October 1865

Elizabeth Garrett obtained an apothecary's licence through the Society of Apothecaries : this began her medical career, after her rejection by the Universities of London , Edinburgh , St Andrews , Oxford , and Cambridge .

February 1877: The Senate of St Andrews University established...

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February 1877

The Senate of St Andrews University established a distance qualification for women: the Licentiate, or LA, of equal standard to the MA (which was and is in Scotland a first degree).

1881: University College, Dundee, was founded....

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1881

29 September 1904: Gertrude von Petzold, a German Unitarian,...

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29 September 1904

Gertrude von Petzold , a German Unitarian , became the first woman to act as a minister in England since before the Victorian age.

1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...

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1926

New statutes at Cambridge University first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.

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