University of St Andrews

EM 's eldest son, Alexander Colville , was educated for the ministry in Scotland before travelling to Europe to teach Hebrew and physics at the protestant academy at Sedan in the French Ardennes. He...

At twenty years old, Willa Anderson (later WM ) met her first love, Cecil Wilmot Morrison , a medical student at St Andrews University and a star university rugby player. Their engagement, made in the...

Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler . She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott

As a student at St Andrews University , WM spent two years on the editorial committee for the student journal College Echoes.

In 1867 Mill was made rector of the University of St Andrews .

The husband drew up his will in 1884, leaving the bulk of his fortune for women's education and clearly explaining why. It is women who have hitherto had the worst of life, and I therefore...

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...

Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

These books have been credited with single-handedly raising literacy rates among children. They have generated income for many others besides JKR . Firms awarded the contracts for Harry Potter merchandise include Marks and Spencer for...

Professor James Stuart , an old friend who was currently Rector of St Andrews University , recommended that this institution award MGF an Honorary LL.D to recognise her work for the higher education of women...

FW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of St Andrews , only one year after she had finally collected the undergraduate degree she had earned years before from the same institution.

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...

Her life-long frustration over gender inequality remains at the centre of the book. As an undergraduate at St Andrews she observes how the patriarchal Law rated us as second-class citizens (we could not vote) and...

The full title was yet longer: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the...