Bathurst studentship

{{Short description|Fund for women science graduates at Cambridge (1879–)}}

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).<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Cambridge |first=University of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQAIiIzRJvQC&q=%22bathurst+studentship%22 |title=Register |date=1974 |isbn=978-0-521-20396-8 |pages=588 |language=en}}</ref> She was the daughter of Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst and his second wife Evelyn, ''née'' Hankey.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage |date=1999 |editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |edition=106 |pages=216}}</ref> She contributed money and equipment for the establishment of the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Richmond |first=Marsha L. |date=1997 |title="A Lab of One's Own": The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/236151 |journal=Isis |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=422–455 |doi=10.1086/383769 |jstor=236151 |pmid=9450359 |issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Bathurst, Lady Evelyn Selina, ?1845 - 1946 (wife of Major George Coryton Lister) {{!}} ArchiveSearch |url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/agents/people/11098 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> On 18 June 1898, she married Major George Coryton Lister. They had two children.<ref name=":2" /> She died on 16 April 1946.

The Bathurst Studentship, awarded 'from time to time,'<ref name=":1" /> 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.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gardner |first=Alice |title=A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge |date=1921 |pages=64; 93}}</ref>

== Notable recipients ==

* Florence Eves (1881–2)<ref name=":4" /> * Alice Johnson (1882–3)<ref name=":4" /> * Marion Greenwood (1883–4)<ref name=":4" /> * Anna Bateson (1887–9)<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Creese |first=Mary R. S. |date=1991 |title=British women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who contributed to research in the chemical sciences |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/british-women-of-the-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries-who-contributed-to-research-in-the-chemical-sciences/E693E93196B5601A9DE908577A9E3EAB |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |language=en |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=275–305 |doi=10.1017/S0007087400027370 |pmid=11622943 |issn=1474-001X}}</ref> * Edith Saunders (1888–9)<ref name=":4" /> * Elizabeth Eleanor Field (1891–3)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Rayner-Canham |first1=Marelene F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aCZqDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Elizabeth+Eleanor+Field%22 |title=Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949 |last2=Rayner-Canham |first2=Geoffrey |date=2008 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=9781860949869 |language=en}}</ref> * Mary Tebb (1891–3)<ref name=":5" /> * Gertrude Elles (1895)<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |title=Legends of Rock: Gertrude Elles {{!}} The Palaeontological Association |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/newsletter/legends-rock/legends-rock-gertrude-elles |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211004631/https://www.palass.org/publications/newsletter/legends-rock/legends-rock-gertrude-elles |archive-date=11 December 2022 |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=www.palass.org |language=en}}</ref> * Ethel Skeat (1895–7)<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Donnell |first=Megan |date=2019-07-23 |title=100 years of female Fellows: Ethel Woods (nee Skeat) |url=https://blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2019/07/23/100-years-of-female-fellows-ethel-woods-nee-skeat/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=The Geological Society Blog |language=en}}</ref> * Mildred Gostling (1899–1900)<ref name=":5" /> * Sibille Ford (1900–2)<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Sibille Ford |url=https://www.newbotaniststwo.uk/sybille-ford |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=www.newbotaniststwo.uk |language=en}}</ref> * Ida Smedley (1901–3)<ref name=":5" /> * Jessie Slater (1903–5)<ref name=":5" /> * Muriel Onslow (1904)<ref name=":5" /> * Edith Gertrude Willcock (1904–5) * Annie Homer (1905)<ref name=":5" /> * Mary Gladys Sykes (1908–9)<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1911 |title=V. The anatomy and morphology of the leaves and inflorescences of Welwitschia mirabilis |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character |language=en |volume=201 |issue=274–281 |pages=179–226 |doi=10.1098/rstb.1911.0005 |issn=0264-3960|doi-access=free }}</ref> * Margaret Hume (1912)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hume |first=E. M. Margaret |date=1912 |title=The Histology of the Sieve Tubes of Pteridium aquilinum, with some Notes on Marsilia quadrifolia and Lygodiumdi chotomum |url=https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/235541/The |journal=Annals of Botany |language=en |volume=os-26 |issue=2 |pages=573–587 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089401 |issn=1095-8290}}</ref> * Molly F. Mare (1938)<ref name="Haines_2001">{{Cite book |last=Haines |first=Catharine M. C. |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain |title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 |date=2001 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781576070901 |page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain/page/293 293] |language=en |quote=molly mare marine biology university of cambridge. |url-access=registration}}</ref> * Nancy Kirk (1939)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Nancy Kirk 1916 – 2005: – Aber Geologists |url=http://abergeologists.net/wp/2005/12/03/nancy-kirk-1916-2005/ |access-date=2021-01-28 |website=abergeologists.net}}</ref> * June Sutor (1954)<ref name="In memorium">{{cite web |date=July 1990 |title=June Sutor 1929–1990 |url=https://ddcy2gtj9v0dh.cloudfront.net/Uploads/v/h/z/June-Sutor---In-Memoriam.pdf |accessdate=9 July 2019 |publisher=All Saint's Church, Talbot Road, Highgate |archive-date=19 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219170843/https://ddcy2gtj9v0dh.cloudfront.net/Uploads/v/h/z/June-Sutor---In-Memoriam.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Brigid Hogan (1966)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=Brigid Hogan {{!}} Newnham College |url=https://newn.cam.ac.uk/person/brigid-hogan |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=newn.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> * Rachel Alcock<ref name=":5" /> * Mary Bernheim<ref name=":5" /> * Dorothy Jordan Lloyd<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bate-Smith |first=E.C. |date=1947 |title=Obituary Notice: Dorothy Jordan Lloyd |journal=Biochemical Journal |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=481–2|doi=10.1042/bj0410481 |pmid=16748198 |pmc=1258521 }}</ref> * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ogilvie |first1=Marilyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlxsBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22bathurst+studentship%22&pg=PT692 |title=The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century |last2=Harvey |first2=Joy |date=2003-12-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-96342-2 |language=en}}</ref> * Lilian Sheldon<ref name=":4" />

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