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 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…
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…
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!)
John Menzies (1894-1941), MA 1921
John Donald Steward Menzies [1913-UC1-047] was born in Dundee, in 1894. He studied at St…
Veera Krishna Samy (1899-1974)
Veera Krishna Samy [1921-UCD-063] was probably born on 26 July 1899. He was from Singapore,…
Jessie Strathdee, née Cranmer (1871-1956)
Jessie Graham Cranmer [1922-UC1-070] was born on 9 October 1871, in New Kilpatrick, near Glasgow….
Agnes Hogg (b.1896), MA 1918
Agnes Marion Hogg [1914-UC1-033] was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, in 1896, and entered the United…
Margaret Owler (1895-1976), MA 1918
Margaret Martin Wilson Owler [1914-UCD-025] was born 13 September, 1895 in Dysart, near Kirkcaldy, Fife,…
Adewale Doherty (?1894-1935)
Adewale Doherty [1921-UCD-022] was from Lagos, on the coast of west Africa (now: Nigeria). His…
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,…
Madge Turnbull (c.1895-1960+), MA 1917
Madge Turnbull was educated at the High School of Dundee. She matriculated at University College…
Elizabeth Peacock (1895 -1960), MA 1917
Elizabeth Blyth Peacock [1913-UC1-055] was born in 1895, in the St Peter’s district of Dundee….