Elizabeth Peacock (1895–1960), MA 1917
Elizabeth Blyth Peacock [1913-UC1-055] was born in 1895, in the St Peter’s district of Dundee. She was the third daughter of Andrew L. Peacock, a heating engineer, and Mary W. Proctor. By 1901, the family was living in Forgan, Fife.
Elizabeth began attending the University of St Andrews in 1913, at the age of 19, obtaining the Taylor-Thomson Bursary/Scholarship, and studying under the St Andrews provincial committee for the training of teachers. She graduated 6th July 1917 with a MA, and was awarded a Second Class Honours in Modern Languages in October 1917.
After graduation, her records are hard to find, but we know that she lived at 1 Kinburn Terrace, St. Andrews, in 1923 with her younger sister, Isabella Peacock (c1898-1984, also a St Andrews graduate), and moved with her to Earnbank, Wormit-on-Tay at some point in 1924. She appears not to have married, and died in 1960, aged about 65. She is buried in Forgan, Fife.
This summary was written in May 2026 by Lola Lam, then a first-year MA student of International Relations and History at the University of St. Andrews.
Sources: USALM archives; 1901 census via the Newport, Wormit & Forgan archive; Findagrave.com