Bathurst studentship

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, 6^th 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.^[2] She died on 16 April 1946.

The Bathurst Studentship, awarded 'from time to time,'^[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.^[3]^[5]

[1]
Cambridge, University of (1974). Register. p. 588. ISBN 978-0-521-20396-8.
[2]
Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106 ed.). p. 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. ISSN 0021-1753.
[4]
"Bathurst, Lady Evelyn Selina, ?1845 - 1946 (wife of Major George Coryton Lister) | ArchiveSearch". archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
[5]
Gardner, Alice (1921). A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge. pp. 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. 24 (3): 275–305. doi:10.1017/S0007087400027370. ISSN 1474-001X.
[7]
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2008). Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. World Scientific. ISBN 9781860949869.
[8]
O'Donnell, Megan (2019-07-23). "100 years of female Fellows: Ethel Woods (nee Skeat)". The Geological Society Blog. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
[9]
"Sibille Ford". www.newbotaniststwo.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-06.
[10]
"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. 201 (274–281): 179–226. 1911. doi:10.1098/rstb.1911.0005. ISSN 0264-3960.
[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. os-26 (2): 573–587. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089401. ISSN 1095-8290.
[12]
Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO. p. 293. ISBN 9781576070901. molly mare marine biology university of cambridge.
[13]
"Nancy Kirk 1916 – 2005: – Aber Geologists". abergeologists.net. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
[14]
"June Sutor 1929–1990" (PDF). All Saint's Church, Talbot Road, Highgate. July 1990. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
[15]
"Brigid Hogan | Newnham College". newn.cam.ac.uk. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
[16]
Bate-Smith, E.C. (1947). "Obituary Notice: Dorothy Jordan Lloyd" (PDF). Biochemistry. 41: 481–2.
[17]
Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96342-2.

[:1-1] [1]
Cambridge, University of (1974). Register. p. 588. ISBN 978-0-521-20396-8.

[:2-2] [2]
Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (106 ed.). p. 216.

[:4-3] [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. ISSN 0021-1753.

[4] [4]
"Bathurst, Lady Evelyn Selina, ?1845 - 1946 (wife of Major George Coryton Lister) | ArchiveSearch". archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-09.

[5] [5]
Gardner, Alice (1921). A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge. pp. 64, 93.

[:5-6] [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. 24 (3): 275–305. doi:10.1017/S0007087400027370. ISSN 1474-001X.

[:0-7] [7]
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2008). Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. World Scientific. ISBN 9781860949869.

[8] [8]
O'Donnell, Megan (2019-07-23). "100 years of female Fellows: Ethel Woods (nee Skeat)". The Geological Society Blog. Retrieved 2024-09-09.

[:02-9] [9]
"Sibille Ford". www.newbotaniststwo.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-06.

[10] [10]
"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. 201 (274–281): 179–226. 1911. doi:10.1098/rstb.1911.0005. ISSN 0264-3960.

[11] [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. os-26 (2): 573–587. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089401. ISSN 1095-8290.

[Haines_2001-12] [12]
Haines, Catharine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO. p. 293. ISBN 9781576070901. molly mare marine biology university of cambridge.

[:3-13] [13]
"Nancy Kirk 1916 – 2005: – Aber Geologists". abergeologists.net. Retrieved 2021-01-28.

[In_memorium-14] [14]
"June Sutor 1929–1990" (PDF). All Saint's Church, Talbot Road, Highgate. July 1990. Retrieved 9 July 2019.

[15] [15]
"Brigid Hogan | Newnham College". newn.cam.ac.uk. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2024-09-09.

[16] [16]
Bate-Smith, E.C. (1947). "Obituary Notice: Dorothy Jordan Lloyd" (PDF). Biochemistry. 41: 481–2.

[17] [17]
Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (2003-12-16). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96342-2.

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