Alumni
All those who studied at St Andrews from 1579 to 1897 have an entry in the Biographical Register of the University of St Andrews, which is available in print or searchable online.
Our VIP teams have been transcribing the records of students since 1898, and researching their lives. They will eventually form part of a revised/expanded edition of the Biographical Register, but until that moment, we share some of them here. You can browse through the articles below, explore via the tag cloud (right), or search via the searchbox (top right).
Featured profiles
Tammas Broon: ‘Lad O’ Pairts’
Botanist, Teacher, Traveller, Scientist: John Hardie Wilson (1858–1920)
John Hardie Wilson devoted his life to botany. He studied botany, taught botany, worked in botany, travelled to see botany, travelled to study botany, and travelled to see how other…
St Andrews and the Making of a Chemist: Edmund Langley Hirst (1898–1975)
Edmund Langley Hirst arrived at St Andrews with ambitions of a degree in Classics. His experience in St Andrews’ chemistry laboratories during the First World War would shape his life…
All past students
(From the period 1900-1925, that we have so far transcribed… There are many more to come!)
James Mailer (1905–1962)
James Mailer was born on 20 January 1905, in Stenhouse Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife, to his…
Catherine Margaret Brown (1883–1976)
Catherine Brown (1902-UC1-010) was born in 1883 on Market Street in St Andrews, to William…
Fridtjof Kjelsberg (1897–?)
Fridtjof Emil Kjelsberg was born c. 1897 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He obtained a degree in…
James Lawrence Fowlie (1896–1917)
James Lawrence Fowlie was born on 12 February 1896 in Singapore, the eldest son of…
James Christie Ross (1895–1976) BSc 1921
James Christie Ross [1914-UCD-027] may have been born in Nigg, in 1895, though he was…
Beatrice Fernie (later, Evans) (1895–?)
Beatrice Emma Fernie [1913-UC1-025] entered United College at 18 years old in 1913, with a…
Adewale Doherty (1894?–1935)
Adewale Doherty [1921-UCD-022] was from Lagos, on the coast of west Africa (now: Nigeria). His…
Mary Tennyson Winckley (later Scott) (1894–1968+)
Mary Tennyson Winckley was born in 1894. Her parents were Sidney Thorold Winckley (b.1858, an…
John Paul (1905–?)
John “Jackie” Paul was born on 13 February 1905, in Cowdenbeath, Fife, to his father…