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
The Prisoner of War Who Kept His Word: the Revd Alexander Anderson (1876–1933)
Minister Alexander Anderson, was celebrated as a hero by his community in Scotland when he was detained in Germany during the Great War… until he returned home and was labeled a traitor. Alexander…
The Untold Story of an International Minister’s Wife: Helen Ross (née Cairns) (1883–1969)
Helen Ross spent her adult life moving across the world as a minister’s wife, mother, teacher, and role model within her community. Like many women of her time, the work that…
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…
All past students
(From the period 1900-1925, that we have so far transcribed… There are many more to come!)
Catherine Margaret Brown (1883-1976)
Catherine Brown (1902-UC1-010) was born in 1883 on Market Street in St Andrews, to William…
Agnes Hogg (b.1896), MA 1918
Agnes Marion Hogg [1914-UC1-033] was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, in 1896, and entered the United…
Malcolm McGibbon (1894- 1970), BSc 1922
Malcom McGibbon [1913-UC1-041] was born in 1894, in Inchture. He may have been educated at Harris…
Ari Krishna Rama Chandra (b.1896)
Ari Krishna Rama Chandra [1921-UCD-013, sometimes written Ramachandra] was born 11th July 1896. He was…
Agnes Ferguson (later, Ingle) (c1895-after 1965)
Agnes Sinclair Ferguson [1913-UC1-024] came from Auchtermuchty, in Fife. She arrived at the University 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…
John Menzies (1894-1941), MA 1921
John Donald Steward Menzies [1913-UC1-047] was born in Dundee, in 1894. He studied at St…
Esther Hunter (later, Menzies) (1895-1983), MA 1918
Esther Hunter [1913-UC1-033] was born in Lundin Links, Fife, and received her school education there,…
Beatrice Fernie (later, Evans) (b.1895)
Beatrice Emma Fernie [1913-UC1-025] entered United College at 18 years old in 1913, with a…