Mary Tennyson Winckley was born in 1894. Her parents were Sidney Thorold Winckley (b.1858, an Anglican clergyman) and Elizabeth Sara Lucy Freer (b.1863), who had married in 1888. By age seven, Mary would likely go to…
Helen Simpson Gilchrist was born in 1896 in Largo, Fifeshire. Her father, James Gilchrist, was a stone and brick builder. Her mother was Elizabeth Gillis. During her time at St. Andrews, Gilchrist benefitted from the…
Helen Stiven Ross was born 17 March 1895 in Brechin in Angus, Scotland. Her family claimed a link to Robert Burns in a 1960 article, tracing Helen’s brother as a great-great-great-great-great grandson of Robert Burns’…
Today there are typically more women at university than men, and here at St Andrews, the ratio is currently 59 women to 41 men.[1] But almost one hundred years earlier, the demographic picture was vastly different. In…
Jessie Graham Cranmer [1922-UC1-070] was born on 9 October 1871, in New Kilpatrick, near Glasgow. Her parents were John Cranmer, and her mother was Margaret Alexander Graham. Nothing is currently known about her early…
Susan Helen Bisset [1921-UCD-008] was born on 28 September 1902, in Dundee. Her father was Christopher Bisset. She was educated at Harris academy and then at the High School of Dundee. In 1921, she matriculated at…
Madge Turnbull was educated at the High School of Dundee. She matriculated at University College Dundee in 1913, studying under the committee for the training of teachers; but later transferred to St Andrews and…
It is 1901, and you are going to university. What do you imagine you will study? Greek and Latin were the traditional basis of much education, or you might choose something like medicine, so you can work in a…
Margaret Mary Black [1913-UCD-004], of Dundee, entered University College Dundee in 1913. She was in training under the Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers. In her second year, she received the…
Margaret Martin Wilson Owler [1914-UCD-025] was born 13 September, 1895 in Dysart, near Kirkcaldy, Fife, and educated at the local high school until 1912. She attended University College Dundee from 1914 to 1918,…