List of Donors to the University of St Andrews, 1700-1900 (dataset)

  • Aileen Fyfe (Creator)
  • Isabel Robinson (Data Collector)
  • Matthew Warren Ylitalo (Contributor)

Dataset

Description

This spreadsheet lists the 82 people whom we identified as making financial gifts to the University of St Andrews (and/or to benefit its students) in the period 1700-1900. It complements the 'List of Gifts to the University of St Andrews, 1700-1900'.

Donors who were shown to be associated with colonialism or enslavement are marked as such.

Biographical information on every donor can be found on our project website https://legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Date made available12 Mar 2025
PublisherUniversity of St Andrews
Temporal coverage1700 - 1900
Date of data production2021 - 2025
Geographical coverageScotland

Keywords

  • philanthropy
  • universities
  • Scotland

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