University of Aberdeen

AS earned her Master of Letters (MLitt) from the University of Aberdeen, having already received the Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for Poetry, placed top in her Senior Honours Class, and won the illustrious Lucy...

After attending Cults Primary School, followed by Aberdeen High School for Girls , NS received her MA (a first degree in Scotland) in 1915 from the University of Aberdeen . Her studies in English laid...

Margaret Cowie (later LS ) received her Master of Arts (a first degree in Scotland) from the University of Aberdeen .

Near the end of the First World War, Margaret Cowie (later LS ) finished her schooling at Peterhead Academy, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and won a bursary to continue her education at the University of Aberdeen .

Her father, Thomas Gordon , was an academic philosopher, Professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen . He loved music and was for years a leading light of the (all-male) Aberdeen Musical Society . He died in 1797.

MAH 's father, Robert Adamson , educated at Edinburgh University , became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College (later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen and then Glasgow ...

Mary Catherine's Scottish father, Joseph Hume , was a Radical Member of Parliament, who sat indefatigably on committees and held other positions such as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University . In parliament he reportedly spoke...

JK 's birth father, Jonathan O., was a graduate student from (as she discovered belatedly) Nzagha in Ukpor, Nigeria, who had studied at other British universities and was at the University of Aberdeen when...

In March 1895 she received the first honorary LLD awarded to a woman by the University of Aberdeen , and two years later she received an honorary DLitt from the University of Durham for her scholarship.

One of her employers was Dr Jack, principal of King's College, Aberdeen , whose wife was sympathetic and whose volumes of Shakespeare she used to borrow.

While working on her undergraduate degree, NS regularly contributed poetry and other writings to Alma Mater, the magazine of the University of Aberdeen .

Classics scholar JEH received an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen , the first conferred by the institution on a woman.

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an Honorary DLitt from the University of Aberdeen in 1996.

AS received, in absentia, an Honorary LL.D from the University of Aberdeen .