St Anselm Hall Archive
Scholarships
In his book on the hall's history Thomas Lawrenson wrote of the noteable class diversity within St. Anselm Hall, where coal miner's sons lived alongside the sons of vicars and schoolteacheres. Many of those who came into hall from working class backgrounds during this period were able to do so because they were granted scholarships from a range of sources, both internal to the hall and University and from external bodies such as County Education Departments. This page provides further detail on some of those awards.
Hall Scholarships
In the inter-war period St. Anselm Hall offered several scholarships for Church of England members coming into the hall. In order to qualify, prospective candidates had to take the University scholarship exams as well as completing a general paper and an interview set by the hall. By the time of Armytage’s departure in 1934, there were four scholarships available each year, two for £20 and two for £30. These were tenable for each year that the recipient remained in hall, dependent on his continued good conduct and satisfactory academic performance.
Recipients:
1928- Miles Birtwell & Cyril Elliott
1934- William Fish
1935- Herbert Fletcher
1938- James Gilliam
1940- Edwin Thyer
University of Manchester Scholarships & Prizes
Bishop Fraser Scholarship
Established on the marriage of the Bishop of Manchester, James Frazer, to Agnes Duncan in 1880, the Bishop Fraser Scholarship provided a classics student with two years of funding at £40 per year.
Recipients:
Thomas Gribbin (1915)
Bishop Lee Greek Testament Prize
The Bishop Lee Greek Testament Prize was established in the late 1870s through funds left in the will of Susan Lee, the widow of James Prince Lee, the first Bishop of Manchester. Under the terms of the will, there were two prizes available for Greek Testament students, a junior prize with a value of £12 10s and a senior with a value of £25
Recipients:
Albert Candler (1910 (Junior) & 1913 (Senior))
Darbishire Fellowship
Worth £100 and lasting for one year, the Darbishire Fellowship was one of three Junior Research Fellowships offered by the University of Manchester in the mid-1920s and was open to all science graduates.
Recipients:
George Brindley (1928)
Mosley Memorial Prize
Awarded by the physics department, the Moseley memorial prize was established shortly after the First World War in memory of Henry Moseley, a physics lecturer who had been killed whilst on active service as a Royal Engineer in the First World War.
Recipients:
George Brindley (1925)
Oliver Heywood Scholarship
Oliver Heywood was a banker and local philanthropist, with a particular interest in education. In 1887 he endowed a scholarship worth £50 per year, tenable for two years, to be awardable to a student studying a B.A. degree at Owen’s college who was in the honours school of classics, history or philosophy. A particular stipulation of the scholarship was that the student had to be studying Greek.
Recipients:
Samuel Sedgley (1912)
Local Scholarships and Awards
County Major and Minor Scholarships
Many cities or counties had their own major and minor scholarships. Generally speaking, those who were awarded a major scholarship would have full funding for their degrees, while students with a minor scholarship would have partial funding.
Recipients:
Leslie Bale (Glamorgan. 1927.)
Charles Brown (North Riding. 1933.)
Richard Crossland (West Riding Major Scholarship. 1933.)
Gunson Exhibition Scholarship
The Gunson Exhibition scholarship was established in the 1890s by Mrs. Jackson Mitchell, in memory of her brother, a fellow and tutor at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Worth £50 per year, it was awarded to two candidates from poor northern backgrounds, to be used towards their higher education.
Recipients:
Thomas Atkinson (1927.)
Stocks Massey
Edward Stocks-Massey made his fortune through Massey’s Brewery, an establishment in Burnley which he owned alongside several of his brothers. On his death in 1910, Edward left a large sum of money to be used for the benefit of the residents of Burnley. In the early 1920s, a portion of this money was used to establish a series of Edward Stocks Massey Scholarships, intended to fund successful students in a variety of studies.
There were two Stocks Massey Scholarships available to students of Burnley Grammar School, both of which were valued at £75 per year for a period of three years, tenable at the University of Manchester or another approved institution.
Recipients:
Edward Harrison Graham (1924), Harry Wildman (1924), Jack Beetham (1929), Charles Davenport (1931)
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