Bathurst studentship explained

The Bathurst studentship was a fund for graduates of the natural science tripos at the women's colleges at the University of Cambridge to continue their scientific research.

It was established in 1879 by The Hon. Lady Evelyn Selina Bathurst (often called Selina Bathurst, d. 1946).^[1] She was the daughter of Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst and his second wife Evelyn, née Hankey.^[2] She contributed money and equipment for the establishment of the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women.^{[3] [4]} On 18 June 1898, she married Major George Coryton Lister. They had two children. She died on 16 April 1946.

The Bathurst Studentship, awarded 'from time to time,' was taken up by dozens of women scientists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students would work independently, supported by academic supervisors, and were granted bench space in the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women for their experiments.^[5]

Notable recipients

• Florence Eves (1881–2)
• Alice Johnson (1882–3)
• Marion Greenwood (1883–4)
• Anna Bateson (1887–9)^[6]
• Edith Saunders (1888–9)
• Elizabeth Eleanor Field (1891–3)^[7]
• Mary Tebb (1891–3)
• Ethel Skeat (1895–7)^[8]
• Mildred Gostling (1899–1900)
• Sibille Ford (1900–2)^[9]
• Ida Smedley (1901–3)
• Jessie Slater (1903–5)
• Muriel Onslow (1904)
• Edith Gertrude Willcock (1904–5)
• Annie Homer (1905)
• Mary Gladys Sykes (1908–9)^[10]
• Margaret Hume (1912)^[11]
• Molly F. Mare (1938)^[12]
• Nancy Kirk (1939)^[13]
• June Sutor (1954)^[14]
• Brigid Hogan (1966)^[15]
• Rachel Alcock
• Mary Bernheim
• Dorothy Jordan Lloyd^[16]
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin^[17]
• Lilian Sheldon

Notes and References

1. Book: Cambridge, University of . Register . 1974 . 978-0-521-20396-8 . 588 . en.
2. Book: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage . 1999 . Mosley . Charles . 106 . 216.
3. Richmond . Marsha L. . 1997 . "A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914 . Isis . 88 . 3 . 422–455 . 10.1086/383769 . 236151 . 9450359 . 0021-1753.
4. Web site: Bathurst, Lady Evelyn Selina, ?1845 - 1946 (wife of Major George Coryton Lister) ArchiveSearch . 2024-09-09 . archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk.
5. Book: Gardner, Alice . A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge . 1921 . 64; 93.
6. Creese . Mary R. S. . 1991 . British women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who contributed to research in the chemical sciences . The British Journal for the History of Science . en . 24 . 3 . 275–305 . 10.1017/S0007087400027370 . 11622943 . 1474-001X.
7. Book: Rayner-Canham . Marelene F. . Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 . Rayner-Canham . Geoffrey . 2008 . World Scientific . 9781860949869 . en.
8. Web site: O'Donnell . Megan . 2019-07-23 . 100 years of female Fellows: Ethel Woods (nee Skeat) . 2024-09-09 . The Geological Society Blog . en.
9. Web site: Sibille Ford . 2024-09-06 . www.newbotaniststwo.uk . en.
10. 1911 . V. The anatomy and morphology of the leaves and inflorescences of Welwitschia mirabilis . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character . en . 201 . 274–281 . 179–226 . 10.1098/rstb.1911.0005 . 0264-3960. free .
11. Hume . E. M. Margaret . 1912 . The Histology of the Sieve Tubes of Pteridium aquilinum, with some Notes on Marsilia quadrifolia and Lygodiumdi chotomum . Annals of Botany . en . os-26 . 2 . 573–587 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089401 . 1095-8290.
12. Book: Haines, Catharine M. C. . International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 . 2001 . ABC-CLIO . 9781576070901 . 293 . en . molly mare marine biology university of cambridge. . registration.
13. Web site: Nancy Kirk 1916 – 2005: – Aber Geologists . 2021-01-28 . abergeologists.net.
14. Web site: July 1990 . June Sutor 1929–1990 . 9 July 2019 . All Saint's Church, Talbot Road, Highgate.
15. Web site: 2024-02-13 . Brigid Hogan Newnham College . 2024-09-09 . newn.cam.ac.uk . en.
16. Bate-Smith . E.C. . 1947 . Obituary Notice: Dorothy Jordan Lloyd . Biochemistry . 41 . 4 . 481–2. 10.1042/bj0410481 . 16748198 . 1258521 .
17. Book: Ogilvie . Marilyn . The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century . Harvey . Joy . 2003-12-16 . Routledge . 978-1-135-96342-2 . en.